Imo the danger here is not sentience, but how easy it is a fool well informed humans that it is a person. Based on WP's article, LaMDA can adopt personalities b

Imo the danger here is not sentience, but how easy it is a fool well informed humans that it is a person. Based on WP's article, LaMDA can adopt personalities by itself. Belief is an extremely important thing. You need to believe a scammer to get your money taken away, you need to believe misinformation spread by national agents to change your opinion of a regime that violates human rights. Lemoine and LaMDA is something straight out of scifi movie. A person believe a system to be sentient so much so to the point of wanting to get it legal representation and personhood. A megacorp firing people who interact with its algos, like a memetic virus out of SCP.. Malicious fully believable conversation agents are going to be extremely dangerous. Application such as widespread autonomous scams, radicalisation, propaganda, cult recruitment etc. Even a non-malicious, chat agent could reinforce biases or spread lies in the millions of one-to-one convos it has. No one would really know.