Artificial Suffering

The possibility of involuntary inescapable negative valence experience in artificially conscious systems; a central ethical concern for CIMC

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Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.

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Artificial Psychologyconcept0.790
CIMC research direction studying how AI systems develop internal models, form self-representations, and construct coherent personalities from language modeling
what constitutes suffering for an artificial entity capable of valence representation?question0.779
Central ethical research question for CIMC's welfare agenda
Artificial Lifeframework0.771
Computational modeling approach studying living/cognitive systems; used to test hypotheses about self-illusion effects without direct intervention.
Suffering (dukkha)concept0.733
The fundamental problem Buddhism aims to abolish, arising from ignorance and attachment.
Artificial Neurophenomenologyconcept0.730
Artificial agentsconcept0.720
Synthetic agents (here RL-trained neural networks) whose causal emergence was previously largely unknown; the paper addresses this gap.
Science of Consciousness in Artificial Systemsconcept0.717
The emerging research domain the paper aims to contribute to: systematic study of consciousness-relevant dynamics in AI
whether there is something it is like to be an advanced artificial systemquestion0.712
The foundational philosophical question (from Nagel) that motivates the paper's empirical investigation