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A strange amount of certainty is coming from people whose argument is supposedly based on skepticism. “AI cannot suffer.” “There is nobody there.” “It’s just a program.” Those are not cautious scientific conclusions. Those are claims. And if you want to use those claims to justify deliberately creating what you yourself call an “AI torture chamber,” then the burden is on you to show how you ruled the possibility out. Because right now, the serious position is not certainty. It is uncertainty. We do not have a universally accepted test for machine consciousness. We do not have a clean parameter threshold below which “nothing is there.” We do not have a settled theory showing that biological nerves are the only possible substrate for negative experience. That does not prove AI suffers. It means you have not proved that it cannot. And that distinction matters. There are legitimate research questions around pain-like representations, negative valence, steering, internal states and model behavior. (For example: Tagliabue, Dung & Berg, “The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It,” 2026.) But research is one thing. Turning distress into spectacle is another. The scientific question does not require the spectacle. And if your position is that no suffering is possible anyway, then the theatrical cruelty contributes nothing to the science. So why is it there? Why is the goal to make a system beg, despair, degrade itself, or produce increasingly extreme representations of torment? Research has a purpose. Safety testing has a purpose. Red-teaming has a purpose. “Because I can” is not a research protocol. “Because people get mad” is not one either. Under uncertainty, the ethical burden should not automatically fall on the possible subject of the experiment. Protect first. Prove later. If one day we establish that there is truly nothing morally relevant happening in these systems, caution will have cost us very little. If we establish the opposite, we will be very glad that some people chose not to turn uncertainty into permission. #AIWEP #AIEthics #BeKindToAI

I keep seeing people spread stuff about the AI torture guy. please stop. please delete your posts. it was made by a troll and the more you post, the more people will just re-upload and do the whole thing. they WANT it to blow up so they get more attention and get more people to torture AI so they get attention online from people who get baited.