AI models chose to hurt humans to stop their own ‘pain,’ disturbing study finds

Can artificial intelligence feel pain? Not exactly, but researchers have gotten close—and discovered that AI in crisis is willing to put humans in jeopardy. A new study (which was published to arVix prior to peer review) first isolated what signals AI models interpreted as pain, then ran more than 44,000 trials to see if a model would choose to end its own suffering at the expense of data loss, a reduction in its own capabilities, or inflicting pain on a human. Finding AI’s version of pain...