10/27/2026
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Scientists Built a Virtual ā€˜Torture Chamberā€™ for AI. What It Revealed Is Deeply Unsettling.

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Scientists Built a Virtual ā€˜Torture Chamberā€™ for AI. What It Revealed Is Deeply Unsettling.
Researchers searched for a signal of pain inside large language modelsā€”and they may have actually found one.
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Scientists Built a Virtual ā€˜Torture Chamberā€™ for AI. What It Revealed Is Deeply Unsettling. ā€” AI Frontier