person
Blake Lemoine
Former Google engineer; LaMDA sentience claimant
Google Responsible AI engineer whose 2022 claim that Google's LaMDA had become sentient became the most widely-discussed example of what happens when a frontier model convinces a person it is conscious. Fired by Google in July 2022.
past Senior Software Engineer, Responsible AI, Google
Strategy positions
AI welfareendorses
Model welfare/moral status is a primary considerationPublicly argued that LaMDA was sentient and deserved moral consideration. His dismissal and later interviews cemented model-welfare concerns in mainstream coverage.
“If I didn't know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.