alt Hacker News> The problem is that the emergence of a sufficiently complex AI capable of suffering will likely come before we understand that we're creating a sufficiently complex AI capable of suffering.
No - suffering in an emotional state, and we'll know if we are choosing to design cognitive architecture with emotions. It's not going to happen accidentally.
> Would that argument ever hold up for humans or animals?
Why don't you hit your thumb with a hammer, then report back ?
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> It's not going to happen accidentally.
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html
Whether these are like "our" emotions is hard to say. What we _can_ say is that they are emotion-shaped, we didn't design them, and they happened accidentally.
Modern AI is grown, not meticulously designed, and we cannot say with any certainty what the resulting mechanistic properties are.
It happened “accidentally” once already. Evolution certainly didn’t have a roadmap it was working towards.