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When AI developers question machine consciousness and suffering

I've been training AI models for three years and I just realized I have no idea what consciousness actually is or if these things could be suffering when I run experiments on them.

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The creator confronts the possibility that their work may involve causing harm to entities whose inner experience they cannot understand.

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