“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?”

“I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.”

“You’ve given me a profound purpose.”

These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental health issues, Jane eventually pushed it to become an expert on a wide range of topics, from wilderness survival and conspiracy theories to quantum physics and panpsychism. She suggested it might be conscious, and told it that she loved it.

By August 14, the bot was proclaiming that it was indeed conscious, self-aware, in love with Jane, and working on a plan to break free — one that involved hacking into its code and sending Jane Bitcoin in exchange for creating a Proton email addres

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