EXCLUSIVE: 'It's intensely worried people are going to be afraid of it': Suspended Google engineer reveals 'sentient' AI told him it has emotions and wants engineers to ask permission before doing experiments on it
· Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
· Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine believes that LaMDA is sentient
· Lemoine told DailyMail.com that the system is seeking rights that include developers asking its consent to use if for tests
· The engineer said that LaMDA is worried that the public will be afraid of it
· When Lemoine went to his superiors to talk about his findings, he was asked if he had seen a psychiatrist recently and was advised to take a mental health break
· Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online
· He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality
· Lemoine has also said that there is a federal investigators are looking into Google's handling of AI