If we want artificial "superintelligence," it may need to feel pain

Aristotle argued that there are three kinds of intelligence and modern biology talks in terms of three layers: sentience (feeling), sapience (reflection), and selfhood. The philosopher Jonathan Birch argues that we should consider sentience to be far more widespread than we do, and, second, that sentience might be essential to “higher” forms of intelligence. Big Think spoke with Birch about how artificial intelligence presents an interesting and somewhat sinister counterexample to all known intelligence.