The neuroscience of algorithmic suffering: short comparative analysis between human and AI
Frontiers in Psychology December 4, 2025 Esen K. Tütüncü, Mar González-Franco
Across cultures and centuries, humans have sought to explain suffering, be it as moral failure, biological necessity, or existential condition. Today, as artificial intelligence begins to mimic aspects of thought and emotion, the question resurfaces: can a machine suffer? In this paper, we revisit suffering not as a sentimental analogy but as a comparative lens between human and algorithmic...