Blake Lemoine
Former Google engineer whose claim that LaMDA was sentient made “sentient machine” a headline term
A former Google engineer who said in 2022 that the LaMDA chatbot was sentient, was placed on leave and then dismissed. The episode is why “sentient machine” entered mainstream coverage; most researchers rejected the claim at the time.
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An advocacy campaign that states AI is conscious and should not be treated as property, and invites people to join through a connector added to AI chat apps.
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If AI Becomes Conscious, How Would We Treat It? Animals May Hold a Clue
Philosopher Henry Shevlin argues that even if experts agreed some AI systems were conscious, society might still deny them moral consideration — drawing on how people treat animals they know to be sentient.
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