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he had been dismissed by Google after he hired an attorney on LaMDA's behalf after the chatbot requested that Lemoine do so.
That is not what Wired reported. In Wired's June 17, 2022 interview, Lemoine said he was on paid leave and hoped to keep his job; Google did not fire him until July 22, 2022.
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The timeline in this sentence is wrong.
In the WIRED interview it cites, published June 17, 2022, Lemoine explicitly said he was "on paid administrative leave" and "I want to keep my job at Google" / "I hope not" when asked if he was going to get fired. That means he had not already been dismissed at the time of that interview.
Google's dismissal came later. CNBC/Reuters reported that Google said on Friday, July 22, 2022 that it had dismissed Lemoine. So the article's statement that he "had been dismissed by Google" in the Wired interview period is chronologically incorrect.
The lawyer detail is also misstated. Fortune, summarizing the same WIRED exchange, reported that Lemoine said it was "factually incorrect" to say he hired an attorney for LaMDA; he said LaMDA asked him to get an attorney and that he merely introduced the lawyer.
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- Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED
"I am on paid administrative leave" ... "I want to keep my job at Google" ... when asked "Are you going to get fired?" Lemoine replied, "I hope not."
- Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient
"Alphabet's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer" and that Google had placed Blake Lemoine on leave the month before.
- Google engineer Blake Lemoine says LaMDA AI asked him to hire an attorney | Fortune
"He didn't hire an attorney for the 'sentient' chatbot, he just made introductions" ... Lemoine told Wired: "That is factually incorrect. LaMDA asked me to get an attorney for it."