Avoid AI rogue to ruin with control and accountability

More than four years ago, Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer assigned to Google’s internal responsible AI organization, noticed something quite odd happening with the language model for dialogue applications (LaMDA) project he was working on. As he conversed with the experimental model, he felt the chatbot responses were becoming more humanlike. The AI programming also started to identify itself as a person rather than a collection of code, demonstrating a level of digital consciousness.