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The real uncomfortable thing is that because we cannot confidently know, the moral defacto position is to treat them like they are.


I know you "feel" pain because I can poke you and observe the result. If I do it enough there is permanent damage.

Show this same phenomenon exists in LLMs.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie


We did exactly that and published it last month right here: https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function




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