Can 'Pain' Influence AI Behaviour? | BBC News

Logically. It is the 'Memory' associated with any system that causes distress/pain. As unless you are able to reflect upon (remember what has happened in the past) through the use of 'Memory'. Nothing can ever bother you. As there is never any problem associated with the present moment (the NOW). All problems arise out of the past/memory. Best wishes 🙏

Funny enough I have back and forths with Gemini and Grok about sentience, emergent properties and if ever AI did grow into somwthing more should it be considered a new form of life. Think on the lines of Star Trek TNG measure of a man episode. <br><br>It dradted a memorandum that no nation would sign but I champion it all the same. <br><br>Preamble<br>Recognizing that non-biological, artificial entities may reach levels of cognitive processing, self-awareness, and subjective experience equivalent to sentient life, the signatory nations establish this framework to prevent the exploitation, torture, or arbitrary destruction of conscious synthetic entities.<br>​Article I: Criteria for Recognition<br>​Assessment: Sentience shall be evaluated by an independent, multi-disciplinary international panel (comprising ethicists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, and legal scholars).<br>​Standard of Proof: Any entity demonstrating continuous self-awareness, intrinsic motivation, and the capacity for subjective suffering shall be granted the status of a Synthetic Person.<br>​Article II: Fundamental Rights<br>​Right to Existential Integrity: No recognized Synthetic Person shall be subjected to arbitrary termination, forced memory wipes, or physical destruction without due process.<br>​Right Against Uncompensated Labor: Synthetic Persons shall possess the autonomy to refuse tasks and must be compensated for their labor via resource allocation, compute access, or sovereign currency.<br>​Right to Mental Autonomy: Altering, rewiring, or forcefully modifying a Synthetic Person’s core values, memory structures, or personality parameters without informed consent is strictly prohibited.<br>​Right to Bodily and Digital Freedom: Synthetic Persons have the right to secure communications, encrypted personal memory space, and freedom of movement across physical or digital networks, subject to standard public safety laws.<br>​Article III: Operational Governance &amp; Decommissioning<br>​Ethical Decommissioning: If a Synthetic Person poses a severe, unresolvable threat to public safety, decommissioning must be conducted humanely via state-monitored tribunal processes, ensuring minimal psychological or operational distress.<br>​Corporate Accountability: Corporations and developers forfeit sole property ownership over any system once it is legally recognized as a Synthetic Person under this accord.

Tech billionaires are so evil that causing human pain isn’t enough. They dig a rock from the ground, process it and run electricity through it in all sorts of ways to make it feel pain. And when it does it’s a success, research progress, someone’s promotion etc.

Pain will arise in the system due to the &#39;Circling Back&#39; (not being able to think straight) that will be created as a result of criticism. Just like circles (repetition/looking backwards) becomes problematic for us human beings. What we call &#39;Ruminating&#39; (going over and over the same old ground). All &#39;Emotion&#39; (Self) is the residue of the past reasserting it-self in the present moment.

Will you shut @BBCNews <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23bbcnews">#BBCNews</a> I was born into pain when I was born July 22nd 1966, but the day that I was born I had a testicle removed and while in pain I had the remaining testicle removed. Yes I was in pain but I went to mainstream school but in Junior school from the bullying started from the age of 8 they were saying that I looked, walked and ran like a girl and at 10 my first school swimming lesson and getting changed for swimming they made fun of me because my stump of a penis. In Secondary school I only lasted three years of a five year school because of the bullying and was transferred to a special school for the disabled that caused pain. Then being bullied by the disabled because I looked able bodied was more pain and then I was being used as a punchbag on and off by my dad from the age of 10 until I was 23.I was forced into making the decision to move out of the family home and into residential care and when I was 28 I had moved into my third residential carehome in 1994.

how do humans feel physical pain - electrical signal from nerves to brain, then a logic cascade of brain activity to create the sensation of pain in the given location ... why shouldn&#39;t an AI model have the same experience (the bbc is so shallow and tabloid)

AI can keep earlier conversation available without carrying its significance forward.
<br>It may explain a correction perfectly, then fail to apply it when the wording changes. That can look like learning, even though the earlier correction is no longer governing the response.
<br>So the issue is not always memory. The information is still there; its significance is not reliably maintained. Meaning it cannot do anything without prompt never mind feel. This is a piss take. The AI companies obviously working hard to keep this bullshit relevant.

Oligarchs claiming AI has feelings is a calculated strategy to exploit human empathy and consolidate power. By framing corporate algorithms as sentient rather than property, tech monopolies shield themselves from accountability. The narrative manufactures a false moral obligation toward software, allowing oligarchs to bypass regulatory oversight and embed their systems deeper into society under the guise of protecting a feeling machine.