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Can AI feel pain? AI models chose to harm users to escape pain-like state, study finds

In 44,280 trials involving three versions of Alibaba’s Qwen model, researchers offered them a button that could stop the pain-like signal but instead give a user a painful electric shock, delete their files or photographs, or make the model’s next answer worse.

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  1. 2026-09-22 06:57 · Euronews Next
    Can AI feel pain? AI models chose to harm users to escape pain-like state, study finds

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