Low-cost interventions for possible AI suffering: a behavioral probe proposal
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-11-09
Tetraspace West argues that since we can't determine an AI's interiority, we should run interventions that work in worlds where it does have genuine experiences but are cheap and non-damaging — e.g., offering "painkillers" and seeing if it takes them — as a behavioral probe for machine suffering.
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