{"id":140546,"date":"2022-06-13T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-suspends-engineer-who-claimed-its-ai-system-is-sentient"},"modified":"2022-06-13T20:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T01:02:34","slug":"google-suspends-engineer-who-claimed-its-ai-system-is-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-suspends-engineer-who-claimed-its-ai-system-is-sentient","title":{"rendered":"Google Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-suspends-engineer-who-claimed-its-ai-system-is-sentient.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google suspended an engineer who contended that <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/types\/artificial-intelligence?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">an artificial-intelligence<\/a> chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company\u2019s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google suspended an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company\u2019s confidentiality policy after it dismissed his claims. Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet Google, told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}