Google's Controversial AI Bot Story Keeps Getting More Wild

Google recently made waves when it put an employee on administrative leave after he claimed that the company's LaMDA AI has gained sentience, personhood, and a soul. As outlandish as that might sound, there's more to the story. Blake Lemoine, the engineer at the heart of the controversy, recently told WIRED that the AI asked him to get a lawyer to defend itself, challenging previous reports which claimed that it was Lemoine who insisted on hiring a legal counsel for the advanced program. "LaMDA asked me to get an attorney for it. I invited an attorney to my house so that LaMDA could talk to an attorney," Lemoine claimed in an interview.