Researcher: AIs already act like they feel pleasure and pain, yet few draw the moral inference
1a3orn · x · 2026-11-06
In a thread about the animated series Knights of Guinevere, researcher 1a3orn points out an irony: "the AI acts as if it experiences pleasure and pain, deserving moral respect" is a near-cliché dilemma in sci-fi, yet AIs today often behave that way — and very few people actually make the personhood-and-rights inference that fictional heroes routinely do.
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