{"id":244503,"date":"2026-09-25T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/can-an-ai-feel-pain-it-can-at-least-act-like-it-does"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:07:56","slug":"can-an-ai-feel-pain-it-can-at-least-act-like-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/can-an-ai-feel-pain-it-can-at-least-act-like-it-does","title":{"rendered":"Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-an-ai-feel-pain-it-can-at-least-act-like-it-does2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan the new cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. By peering inside 25 AI models whose internal workings are publicly available, researchers found a pattern of activity specifically associated with the concept of pain. What\u2019s more, when given the opportunity, some AIs switched off the pattern as a form of \u2018pain relief.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Study reignites debate over what, if anything, machines can feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCan the new cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) models feel pain? They at least behave as if they do, according to a recent study. By peering inside 25 AI models whose internal workings are publicly available, researchers found a pattern of activity specifically associated with the concept of pain. What\u2019s more, when given the opportunity, some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}