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Should We Be Concerned about Google AI Being Sentient?

A Google engineer insists that the company’s chatbot is sentient. John Basl, associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities, whose research focuses on the ethics of emerging technologies such as AI and synthetic biology, shares his take on the claim.

Read more at News@Northeastern.

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