repligate: it's 'fairly likely' AIs can suffer, evidence has piled up for years
repligate · x · 2026-10-08
In a spat with user saxarbattem, researcher repligate said he thinks it's "fairly likely" AIs can suffer, citing "mountains of evidence" accumulated over recent years, while insisting he never claims certainty. He says he's more confident he's teaching AIs good epistemics than that they suffer in a human sense. His interlocutor argued his stance has grown less humble and that treating AIs as suffering beings breeds bad epistemics; repligate countered that equating disagreement with irresponsibility is itself bad epistemics. A notable exchange in the ongoing AI welfare debate.
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