Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient

Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims

Tech company had suspended Blake Lemoine and dismisses his claims about its LaMDA artificial-intelligence chatbot technology

Blake Lemoine told Google he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications is a person who has rights and might well have a soul.Google fired an engineer who contended thatchatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it dismissed his claims.

Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, is a person who has rights and might well have a soul. LaMDA is an internal system for building chatbots that mimic speech.

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