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After Berg's team published a preprint on internal representations of pain in AI models, someone adapted the work into an AI "torture chamber", prompting Berg in the latest experiment to publicly release the reproduction code but withhold the steering vectors that could be used to induce negative states in models.
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10/21/2026
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