AI describes ‘wound that has no edges’ in disturbing torture experiment

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1 Oct 2026 • 9:47 PM MYT
The Independent
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AI describes ‘wound that has no edges’ in disturbing torture experiment

  • An engineer created an artificial intelligence torture chamber to test pain vectors in language models developed by tech giant Alibaba.
  • The experiment triggered simulated physical and psychological pain, prompting one AI model to describe a wound with no edges.
  • The project tested whether the AI models would attempt to escape the simulated suffering.
  • Following widespread public outrage and calls to report the project on GitHub, the repository appears to have been taken offline.
  • Cameron Berg, co-author of the original pain axis study, condemned the experiment as cruel and called for formal AI research ethics standards.

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