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Steve Mollman

A.I. needs ‘a new space in our world,’ says fired Google engineer

Blake Lemoine (Credit: Martin Klimek for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Artificial intelligence will kill us all or solve the world’s biggest problems—or something in between—depending on who you ask. But one thing seems clear: In the years ahead, A.I. will integrate with humanity in one way or another.

Blake Lemoine has thoughts on how that might best play out. Formerly an A.I. ethicist at Google, the software engineer made headlines last summer by claiming one of the tech giant's advanced A.I. systems was sentient. Soon after, the company fired him.

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