“As recently as last week, Lemoine said he was teaching LaMDA — whose preferred pronouns apparently are “it/its” — “transcendental meditation”.”
https://www.ft.com/content/bedd75a8-3068-49f0-b5bc-e691b28a1d1b
““Mr. Lemoine … has described himself as a priest, an ex-convict and an A.I. researcher … He wanted the company to seek the computer program’s consent before running experiments on it. His claims were founded on his religious beliefs.””
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/technology/google-chatbot-ai-blake-lemoine.html
The guy’s got a few screws loose.
It could even be some ‘Her’ movie type scenario where the guy has developed a crush on his AI bot.