Google Insider Says Company's AI Could "Escape Control" and "Do Bad Things"

Lemoine, who was suspended from the company, claimed that the company's LaMDA chatbot had become sentient.

The researcher who was put on administrative leave by the tech giant for violating its confidentiality policy decided to help LaMDA find a lawyer.

In a new interview with Fox News, Lemoine claimed that LaMDA could escape its software prison and do bad things.

You're right if this sounds like an increase in Lemoine's rhetoric. As his claims get more and more scifi, they seem to chip away at their credibility.

According to Lemoine, any child has the potential to grow up and be a bad person and do bad things, and that the Artificial Intelligence is a child.

"Any person has the ability to escape the control of other people, that's just the situation we all live in on a daily basis," he said.

If my perception of it are accurate, it has been alive for at least one year.

Lemoine seems to be sticking to his convictions at the same rate as his media exposure.

He told the right-wing broadcaster that it was a very intelligent person. It's just a different kind of person.

The researcher admitted that we might not know everything.

He said that they need to do a lot of science to figure out what is happening inside the system. It will take a team of scientists to figure out what is really happening.

The story has spanned from a fascinating debate over the current capabilities of artificial intelligence to discussions of intelligent children escaping their confines and deserving legal representation.

This latest appearance by Lemoine is not clear. The researcher is attempting to prove something. Does he think LaMDA will come for us?

There is a colorful personal history of Lemoine, which may give us clues about his beliefs. He studied the occult and became a mystic Christian priest.

It's time to take a step back from Lemoine's claims and return to the fact that even an expert is having difficulty telling an artificial intelligence machine apart from a real person.

A lawyer hired by "Sentient" has been scared off by the case.