Comment by sillysaurusx

It's deeper than that.

Currently, there's no research into torturing AI. Why not?

A pain response is universal across most life forms with a nervous system. We seek to replicate a nervous system. Pain would seem to be far easier to replicate than the scientific method.

My wife sat me down and told me a story that horrified me. She had to get it off her chest, and I was sad it happened to her than to me. She was sitting around on the porch and felt something on her leg, and brushed it off. When she got up and looked down, apparently she had stepped on a poor snail. His shell was... And he was...

He wasn't dead. So she frantically looked up what to do. But there was nothing to do. Snails in that situation can't be helped, and the most humane thing is to put it out of its writing anguish, its full-body torture.

She put on some boots, took it out to the sidewalk, and stomped it as hard as she could. And that was the story of that snail.

You probably felt more for that snail than you've ever felt for any AI bot. Why?

It's worth considering.