Google fired a software engineer who worked on the company’s artificial intelligence development team after it became public that he chatted with a bot that had become “sentient”.
Google fired a software engineer Who work on the company artificial intelligence development team about his public opinion that he was chatting with a bot that had become “sentient”.
Google confirmed the layoffs in a statement saying that claims from the engineer, Blake Lemoine, were “completely baseless” and that he had shared confidential company information with third parties.
Lemoine made her statement in an interview with Washington Posted in June, says LaMDA, AI robot he has interacted with, is a person. Not long after, Google put him on paid leave.
In the end, the company fired him after he “remains persistent in a clear employment violation and data security The policy covers the need to protect product information,” according to the statement.
Google said it looked at the issue extensively, including 11 reviews of LaMDA.
