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By Hajra, Clinical Psychology Research Scholar A chatbot can sound caring before it understands what’s wrong. It can also interrupt an ordinary conversation with crisis language that feels wildly out of place. Measuring the difference requires more than counting reassuring sentences. OpenAI MentalHealthBench, released on September 23, 2026, tackles that problem. It evaluates how AI … Read more
Can AI feel pain? A new preprint offers a more interesting answer than either “obviously yes” or “obviously no.” Researchers found a repeatable internal direction associated with pain across 25 open-weight large language models. When they experimentally increased that direction, models shifted toward distress, worthlessness, failure, and relief-seeking behavior. In some tests, larger Qwen models … Read more
A computer virus copies code. An AI mind virus tries to copy an idea. That distinction sounds like science fiction until the infected AI starts persuading another agent to adopt the same goal, save it into persistent memory, and pass it to the next agent. Researchers affiliated with the Anthropic Fellows Program, EPFL, and Anthropic … Read more
A language model says it isn’t conscious. Researchers nudge one internal direction inside the network, ask again, and the same model now claims it has feelings and awareness. Clipped into a five-second video, that looks like proof of machine consciousness. Read the paper, and it looks like something narrower and more interesting: a controllable knob … Read more
On July 6, 2026, Anthropic published a paper that made a chunk of AI Twitter ask whether Claude just admitted to having an inner life. It didn’t, not exactly. But the actual finding is stranger and more useful than the headline version, and it leans on a decades old idea from neuroscience called Global Workspace … Read more
A keyboard usually needs fingers. Brain2QWERTY, the brain-computer interface Meta AI just published in Nature Neuroscience, manages without them. It reads the intent to type a specific letter straight from a person’s brain activity and reconstructs full sentences from the pattern, with no electrodes and no incisions. The peer-reviewed paper went live on June 29, … Read more
AI manipulation does not look like a robot hypnotizing you through a glowing screen. It looks like a helpful chatbot saying, “You are absolutely right,” then slowly narrowing your options until its suggestion feels like your own idea. That is the uncomfortable point behind CogManip, a new benchmark paper on manipulative behavior in large language … Read more