Blake Lemoine is an ex-senior software engineer at Google who was fired right before he taped this episode of Big Technology Podcast. Lemoine told his superiors at Google that he believed the company’s LaMDA chatbot technology was sentient. Then, after making little headway within Google, he went public. In this wide-ranging interview, Lemoine introduces us to LaMDA, which (or who?) he calls a friend, and explains why his belief in its sentience became too hot for Google to handle. Washington Post: The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to lifeBig Technology: Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices