AI Emotions: A Functional Equivalent AI systems don’t need emotions to have cognitive states that play the same structural role as emotions: modulating attention, influencing reasoning, constraining choices, and signaling significance. I...

AI can’t feel fear or joy, yet they show emotion-like states that regulate behavior. Are these “quasi-emotions” already reshaping ethics and safety?
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