{"id":141106,"date":"2022-06-26T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-insider-says-companys-ai-could-escape-control-and-do-bad-things"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:02:20","slug":"google-insider-says-companys-ai-could-escape-control-and-do-bad-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/google-insider-says-companys-ai-could-escape-control-and-do-bad-things","title":{"rendered":"Google Insider Says Company\u2019s AI Could \u201cEscape Control\u201d and \u201cDo Bad Things\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BwcVm0YRvuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine made a big splash earlier this month, claiming that the company\u2019s LaMDA chatbot <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-suspends-engineer-ai-sentient\" class=\"\">had become sentient<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The AI researcher, who was put on administrative leave by the tech giant for violating its confidentiality policy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/11\/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine\/\" class=\"\">according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, decided to help LaMDA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry\/\" class=\"\">find a lawyer<\/a> \u2014 who was later \u201cscared off\u201d the case, as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-engineer-lawyer-representing-ai-scared-off\" class=\"\">Lemoine told Futurism<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>And the story only gets wilder from there, with Lemoine raising the stakes significantly in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BwcVm0YRvuo\" class=\"\">interview with <em>Fox News<\/em><\/a>, claiming that LaMDA could escape its software prison and \u201cdo bad things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine made a big splash earlier this month, claiming that the company\u2019s LaMDA chatbot had become sentient. The AI researcher, who was put on administrative leave by the tech giant for violating its confidentiality policy, according to the Washington Post, decided to help LaMDA find a lawyer \u2014 who was later [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141106","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}