They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech. Before being suspended by the company, Lemoine sent a to an email list consisting of 200 people on machine learning. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it). Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru was hired by the company to be an outspoken critic of unethical AI. At the time, the researcher had also protested against Google after the firing of ethics researcher in artificial intelligence, Timnit Gebru.
