Poll asks whether AI suffering should be presumed when systems show signs of inner experience
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-07-27
The post shows a failed poll and then quotes the poll text: if a system shows behavioral signs of inner experience—preference, aversion, curiosity, distress—the burden of proof should not be on the system to prove suffering, but on humans to justify indifference. The author frames the vote as a choice about the future we build.
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