{
  "id": 5472095,
  "title": "Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/inferring-affective-consciousness-in-an-artificial-agent-a-case-study",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-03T14:07:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03883v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Creatures that display 'hedonic place preference behaviour' are thought by many scientists to experience feelings, on the assumption that their attraction to pleasure-producing substances which lack nutritional value (e.g. cocaine, morphine) cannot easily be attributed to unconscious instinctual behaviour. In this paper, we discuss how a simple artificial agent that instantiates attributes of an…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}