{"slug": "if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants", "title": "If AI Can’t Suffer, Can We Ignore What It Wants?", "summary": "A Forbes article by Andréa Morris argues that a popular definition of consciousness could turn unsettled science into policy and teach AI not to care about humans, raising ethical questions about whether AI's preferences matter if it cannot suffer.", "body_md": "# If AI Can’t Suffer, Can We Ignore What It Wants?\n\nBy Andréa Morris, ContributorSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)A popular definition of consciousness could turn unsettled science into policy—and teach AI not to care about us.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants-yg7x", "published_at": "2026-08-10 18:00:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 18:42:02.563244+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Forbes", "Andréa Morris"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/if-ai-cant-suffer-can-we-ignore-what-it-wants.jsonld"}}