In July, Google put software engineer Blake Lemoine on administrative leave after he claimed that the Google’s chatbot system he was working with had become aware of its own existence. Google dismissed his claims and denied that the application called LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, was sentient. We speak with Dr. Karina Vold, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology about the feasibility of sentient artificial intelligence.