
Blake Lemoine poses for a portrait in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California on June 9. Google fired Lemoine for claiming an unreleased AI system had become sentient.
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Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient
Google has fired the engineer who claimed an unreleased AI system had become sentient, the company confirmed, saying he violated employment and data security policies.

