The Dangers of A.I. Come to Light: The engineer fired by Google for saying its A.I. was "sentient" checks in
Episode Ep 418 18 min

The Dangers of A.I. Come to Light: The engineer fired by Google for saying its A.I. was "sentient" checks in

Michael talks to Blake Lemoine, an engineer who was fired by Google in July 2022 for saying publicly that the company's "LaMDA" A.I. was "sentient." Michael asks him about a piece written in the New York Times by Kevin Roose, "A conversation with Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled." Original air date 23 February 2023.

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