Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias | Kenan Malik

The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns

‘I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” So claimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles and beyond.

The programme is called LaMDA, an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, a project run by Google. The human to whom it declared itself a person was Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google. He …

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