A Google engineer believed he found an AI bot that was sentient. It cost him his job.

Blake Lemoine, an engineer who claimed an AI bot was sentient, was fired from Google. "We wish Blake well," a spokesperson for Google told the Washington Post. Experts told Insider it is very unlikely the chatbot is sentient. The engineer who claimed a chatbot gained sentience was fired from Google on Friday, both he and the tech giant confirmed. Blake Lemoine sparked controversy after publishing a paper about his conversations with the Google artificial intelligence chatbot LaMDA, which led him to believe the bot had a mind of its own.