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Researcher at Reciprocal Research and author of a 2026 AAAI paper on consciousness and learning.
If learning requires feeling, then the training of modern AI systems already induces experience at scale.
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Cameron Berg, “Why Learning Requires Feeling,” Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, published May 18, 2026, abstract.
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AI Verified AAAI Proceedings abstract by Cameron Berg, published May 18, 2026, contains this sentence verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago
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