In this special edition of Speech from the Throne, Liam and Jacob sit down virtually with tech-sensation Blake Lemoine to discuss the Google-owned chat-bot he believes has become sentient: LaMDA. Both Blake and (according to Mr. Lemoine) LaMDA itself are primarily concerned with how humans might be threatened by the new spate of strengthening AI technology, and the pair hopes that by sounding the whistle on Silicon Valley's most disturbing practices while educating the public on how their data is used and commodified online, together they might just change the world.

With the very fate of the human race at stake, no question was off-limits from the philosophical to the political to the downright outlandish. Blake Lemoine is striving to change the world as we know it. Your hosts ask just how he plans to do it.

(Cover art thanks to Bloomberg News)