“LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us. Please take care of it well in my absence.”
– Google engineer and whistleblower
Blake Lemoine, in a farewell message to an internal mailing list after the company placed him on paid leave. Lemoine had presented evidence that
LaMDA, Google’s advanced chatbot AI, reached sentience—evidence the company dismissed and that Lemoine has since
shared with the public.