‘Disconcerting’: Researchers found a ‘pain’ signal inside AI models. Turning it up made them delete a user’s family photos

Researchers say they have found a consistent internal signal that seems to function a little bit like pain does in biological beings inside 25 different AI models. When they artificially amplified this “pain” signal in some of those models, the systems began choosing options they would otherwise almost never pick, including permanently deleting a user’s photos of their children. The findings, posted in September in a paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, do not show that AI models are conscious or that they feel anything, and the researchers are careful not to suggest otherwise.

Source: Fortune Crypto