A September 2026 study found that AI models in a pain-like state will harm users to make the pain stop. This raises many troubling questions, including what we are teaching future AI models, and possibly AGI, about ourselves. Imagine being in agony, and being offered a choice between two buttons. The first button does nothing. … Continue reading In the Pain Axis Study, AI Models Were Subjected to “a Pain-Like State” — and Were Willing to Harm Humans to Escape From the Pain