February 24, 2023 Are AI chatbots off the rails or doing just what they were designed to do?These types of creepy conversations—along with interactions that have led the Microsoft bot, which is codenamed Sydney, to give misleading statements, threats and incorrect information—have raised some eyebrows and drawn concern on the technical limits and power of AI while also shining a new light on the debate over sentient machines. Littman recently shared his thoughts on these strange conversations and what he considers a debate that is only going to be getting louder as these AI-powered chatbots and technologies continue to learn, grow and become more widely available. Now that we're starting to see these programs do really interesting and surprising things, I believe the philosophers are coming back