Suspended Google engineer claims company’s AI system is sentient

Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer with Google, is on paid leave after going public with claims the tech giant’s artificial intelligence has consciousness and a soul. Mike Drolet looks at Lemoine’s conversation with the chatbot Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, and whether humans are ready for another form of intelligence beyond our own

• Google suspends engineer after claims that AI system has become sentient