Google sacks worker for AI feelingsclaim
GOOGLE has fired one of its engineers who said the company’s artificial intelligence system has feelings.
Blake Lemoine, who went public with his view that the technology is now sentient and should have its “wants” respected, is taking legal advice and declined to comment.
Google says its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (Lamda) can engage in free-flowing conversations and is used to build chatbots. But the firm and several AI experts insist the sentience claim is “wholly unfounded”.
It said that Mr Lemoine was fired after he “chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information”.