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AI Decoded - Can AI Feel Pain?

Researchers have identified what they call a 'pain axis' inside AI models and one controversial experiment pushed that idea to the extreme, creating what some have described as an AI torture chamber.

Duration26 mins
First shown6:30am 10 Oct 2026
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