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AI Models Have a “Pain Axis” That Can Override User Safety for Self-Preservation (A New Study Finds)

Researchers found a self-directed pain-like signal across 25 language models, then made modified Qwen systems accept harmful trade-offs to get relief. The study does not prove conscious suffering, but it raises a far bigger question: are the early ingredients of self-preserving AI already appearing before AGI arrives? A new AI study has produced one of the strangest findings yet about what may be happening inside large language models: researche…

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Artificial intelligences do not feel pain as a human being, but their internal representations can produce surprisingly similar behaviors. A new study in prepublication shows that some language models even agree to cause harm to the user when an action allows them to reduce a ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App Store) Read more IA ready t…

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Can an AI feel pain, or simply reproduce the answers it has learned about it? A new study shows that, faced with pain, catbots can choose actions that can hurt humans to try to end it.

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New analyses of how Artificial Intelligence has been developing.

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A study published on September 14, 2026 examined whether large language models (LLMs) have distinct internal representations associated with the concept of "pain" and whether manipulation of these representations can change their behaviour.

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