AI and the complexity of pain

Outcome: A journal paper in a leading philosophy journal such as Philosophical Psychology, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, or Philosophical Studies.

Objectives: 

1. Map the multidimensional complexity of pain across physical, mental, sensational, perceptual, affective, and  domains

2. Establish the critical importance of preserving pain's heterogeneous nature in clinical assessment

3. Evaluate current AI pain assessment technologies across various developmental stages and implementation contexts

4. Analyse how existing AI approaches potentially undermine pain's inherent complexity through reductive measurement methodologies

5. Formulate design principles and technological frameworks for next-generation AI pain assessment tools that capture pain's full complexity