New AI whistleblower draws Blake Lemoine comparisons: the engineer fired for claiming AI was sentient
IsForAt · x · 2026-09-10
Commenting on a new AI researcher's media warning tour, IsForAt recalls the Blake Lemoine saga: in 2022 Google fired the engineer who claimed its Lamda chatbot was sentient, sparking a summer of "Google has sentient AI" headlines — until ChatGPT launched and Google became the laughingstock for falling behind. A cautionary parallel for the current hype cycle.
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