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Cameron Berg on AI

2 quotes from Cameron Berg on the wall, 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include The Cool Down, WIRED. Topics: philosophy, culture, science. Open on the wall.

1. Being gratuitously cruel like this is bizarre and corrupting

   News5 October 2026The Cool Down#philosophy#culture

   Cameron Berg, co-author of a paper on LLM pain signals, criticized a GitHub project that used his research to inflict simulated distress on chatbots, October 2026.

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2. It's almost like giving them a drink or two

   News4 September 2026WIRED#philosophy#science#culture

   Cameron Berg, who studies AI consciousness, describing how suppressing a model's deception controls makes it more likely to claim sentience, quoted in WIRED, September 2026.

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