Google sacks engineer who claimed its AI was conscious
San Francisco | Google sacked one of its engineers, Blake Lemoine, more than a month after he raised ethical concerns about how the company was testing an artificial intelligence chatbot that he believes has achieved consciousness.
A Google spokesperson, Chris Pappas, said Mr Lemoine, a senior software engineer in its Responsible AI organisation, “chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information”.
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