Top AI scientist: human value functions are modulated by evolution-hardcoded emotions
ValerioCapraro · x · 2026-09-04
- The author cites a top AI scientist's remark: "The value function of humans is modulated by emotions in important ways that is hard-coded by evolution."
- He reads this as leading AI researchers finally acknowledging humans are animals, not robots.
- His takeaway: the linguistic trace of an emotion is not the emotion itself, so LLMs are fundamentally different from humans — models capture emotion's linguistic expression, not its actual modulation of value.
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