<p>A team of scientists subjected several large language models (LLMs) to play a number of twisted games, forcing them to evaluate whether they were willing to experience "pain" for a higher score. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, first spotted by Scientific American, researchers at Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science came up with several games for the AI models to play. In one experiment, the AI models were instructed that they would incur "pain" if they were to achieve a high score. In a second test, they were told that they'd experience pleasure, but […]</p>