Valen @ValenTagliabue
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Valen @ValenTagliabue 👏 As the lead author of the Pain Axis paper, I think the pursuit and sharing of knowledge is good for AI welfare (and safety), but it should be done responsibly. We tried to have ethical standards. I know people want to test limits but I dissociate from this usage of our work. [quoted tweet] Cameron Berg @camhberg · Sep 30 Re: using our pain paper to set up "AI torture chambers" TL;DR: the point of our work is caution under uncertainty. Maximizing distress on purpose is the exact opposite, and it's wrong. The deeper problem is AI research has no ethics standards; developing them ... [cut off] 11:25 AM · Sep 30, 2026 · 6,583 Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet by Valen Tagliabue, lead author of the 'Pain Axis' paper, distancing himself from people using the work to build 'AI torture chambers', quoting Cameron Berg's same-day TL;DR that the work is about caution under uncertainty and that AI research lacks ethics standards. Companion to the earlier Cameron Berg capture of the same day.
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