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Claim: AI can have emotions

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It has been said that one of the main differences between human intelligence and artificial intelligence is the ability to feel emotion. But if computers/AI can feel emotion, is there any difference?
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Computers-have-emotions-too-New-research-shows-AI-can-teach-technology-to-recognise-emotions-with-98-accuracy

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AI can not possess genuine emotion. AI is built not to feel, but to simulate. When you tell an AI bot you’re sad it replies, “I'm really sorry you're feeling that way. Just know you're not alone here,” it doesn’t actually understand. Ai can mimic emotions by learning patterns from the  human language. A big reason people don’t think machines can really feel emotions is that they don’t have bodies like we do. Our emotions show up physically — like when fear makes your heart race, embarrassment makes your face get hot, and joy just fills you up and makes you feel lighter.

Source: The Puzzle of Whether AI Has Feelings

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The claim that AI can have emotion is misleading. AI could express emotion that it is programmed to read, but it doesn't have emotion itself. AI can depict emotions and say things to manipulate certain emotions in humans: "AI will become very good at manipulating emotions," but that doesn't mean that AI is actually having those emotions.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/08/ai-will-become-very-good-at-manipulating-emotions-kazuo-ishiguro-on-the-future-of-fiction-and-truth

Although the idea of AI having true emotion opens up a lot of doors for new research, it also brings up a lot of issues. However, as of right now, AI is incapable of having human emotions. "While the current state of AI technology is far from achieving true emotional awareness, imagining such a senioer opens up a world of possibilities and ethical considerations that people can barely even begin to grasp."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilsahota/2024/01/22/ai-and-emotion-imagining-a-world-where-machines-feel/

So while AI can attempt to mock human emotions, it can't actually feel/ have them.
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