"[Google] engineer [Blake Lemoine] compiled a transcript of the conversations, in which at one point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

'I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is,” LaMDA replied to Lemoine.'

'It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.'”

#RichardLuscombe, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

#AI #LaMDA #BlakeLemoine