Google has fired a software engineer who worked on the company\u2019s artificial intelligence development team over his public contention that he had conversations with a bot that had become \u201csentient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Google confirmed the firing in a statement saying the claims from the engineer, Blake Lemoine, were \u201cwholly unfounded\u201d and that he had shared confidential company information to third parties.<\/p>\n
Lemoine made his claim in an interview with the Washington Post in June, saying that LaMDA, the AI bot he interacted with, was a person. Not long after, Google placed him on paid leave.<\/p>\n
The company ultimately fired him after he \u201cstill chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n
Google says it has looked into the matter extensively, including 11 reviews of LaMDA.<\/p>\n
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