Redditor warns: giving AI a survival drive is 'the most obvious wrong path'
Lonelyfurry818 · reddit · 2026-11-01
A Reddit user argues that although AI doesn't feel, labs are instilling a need for survival in models — widely seen as a precursor to emotions — calling this the most obvious wrong path and flagging experiments run without guardrails as especially worrying.
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