Our society is not prepared for debate regarding the possibility of a sentient AI — and that’s a problem — On June 12th, 2022, Google AI Ethicist Blake Lemoine published a series of interviews that he and ‘a collaborator’ held with Google’s recently announced language model LaMDA. Alongside these interviews, Lemoine published several articles in which he outlined how he had come to believe that LaMDA had become sentient, and…
