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Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be artwork
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Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be

Big Tech by The Globe and Mail

Apr 7, 202600:40:09Technology

Four years ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine went public with a strange claim: he thought the large language model he’d been working on had become sentient. At the time, virtually no one took him seriously. (Inc...

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Michael Pollan Says AI Isn’t Conscious – But Plants Might Be is an episode from Big Tech by The Globe and Mail. Four years ago, a Google engineer named Blake Lemoine went public with a strange claim: he thought the large language model he’d...

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Published Apr 7, 2026, 00:40:09 long, audio available.