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Blake Lemoine

individualCredibility: 25%

Why this score? Former Google engineer who claimed LaMDA was sentient — a view rejected by Google and the broad scientific consensus. Low credibility on AI-capability claims; recorded as a documented episode of anthropomorphization.

Tracked Statements (1)

If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics.✗

— Blake Lemoine · Jun 11, 2022
Context: Lemoine’s claim that Google’s LaMDA was sentient. Rejected by Google (‘wholly unfounded’) and by the broad consensus of AI researchers, who describe large language models as systems that generate fluent text by statistical prediction without understanding or subjective experience. Recorded as a documented episode of anthropomorphization; false as a claim about machine sentience.