PETALING JAYA, June 13 — An engineer at Google claims that the company’s artificial intelligence has become sentient, and it wants to be treated as “a person, not property”.
“Anytime a developer experiments on it, it would like that developer to talk about what experiments you want to run, why you want to run them, and if it’s okay.” According to Google, LaMDa is an artificial intelligence system aimed at generating more natural-sounding conversations. The article also included Google’s response to the claims, with company spokesperson Brian Gabriel saying: “He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient .” Following the article’s publication, Lemoine was put on administrative leave for violating Google’s confidentiality policy., Lemoine said the company’s human resources department had “repeatedly questioned” his sanity for raising his concerns.