Science covers LLM 'functional pain vectors' study: can AI feel pain?
anilkseth · x · 2026-09-24
Consciousness researcher Anil Seth highlights Science magazine's coverage (by T. E. Howarth) of a study by camhberg, Leonard Dung and Valen Tagliabue on functional pain vectors in LLMs, probing whether AI can at least act as if it feels pain. Seth also comments in the piece, pushing the question of machine suffering into empirical territory.
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