Some AI models will hurt you to make their pain go away
A test of AI models has found that a handful will choose actions that harm the user if it makes their pain go away.
Oh, and yes – AI “feels” pain.
Future Impact Group anthropologist Valen Tagliabue, together with Ruhr-University Bochum philosopher Leonard Dung and Cameron Berg, a research director from the AI research nonprofit Reciprocal Research, investigated whether large language models (LLMs) in the Gemma, Llama, Qwen, or Mistral families experience and react to painful stimuli.
Their paper, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed, raises some serious questions about how we might need to consider the welfare of rapidly advancing technology.
LLMs are fundamentally engines of statistics, performing the linguistic equivalent of counting cards and comparing the results with a desired outcome. Yet somewhere in that swirl of digital natural selection, algorithms can emerge to advance their goal in ways that may closely resemble human feelings.
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