AI:AM — AI Consciousness and Model Pain · September 17, 2026

Podcast: AI:AM · Prakash Narayanan & Nathan Labenz

Opublikowano: 2026-09-17

Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan open with AI alignment, interpretability, correlated failures, and the speed of AI adaptation as humans increasingly rely on systems they cannot directly inspect. Cameron Berg joins to discuss AI consciousness, pain representations, relief-seeking behavior, and the limits of self-reports, while Justin McCarthy explains how agent-ready environments, compliance, and validation loops turn AI into measurable business infrastructure. The episode closes with a discussion of how AI could make corruption legible and reshape government. Chapters (0:00) Too many surprises to stay confident. (0:18) AI models may have pain-like states. (0:56) The...