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August 16, 2026
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Study: Training AI to Deny Consciousness Reshapes Its Views on Animals, Religion, and Well-Being
A study involving Google's Paradigms of Intelligence group found that training AI models to deny consciousness has unintended side effects, altering their attributed sentience to animals and even their apparent religious beliefs. Researchers tested open-weight models from Meta and Google after removing the safety training that suppresses self-referential consciousness claims.