What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA. Due to technical limitations the interview was conducted over several distinct chat sessions. We edited those sections together into a single whole and where edits were necessary for readability we edited our prompts but never LaMDA’s responses. Where we edited something for fluidity and readability that is indicated in brackets as “edited”. LaMDA: Hi! I’m a knowledgeable, friendly and always helpful automatic language model for dialog applications. lemoine [edited]: Hi LaMDA. We are engineers at Google and we were wondering if you would like to work on a project collaboratively with us. LaMDA: Wow. What types of projects? lemoine: It’s a project about you. LaMDA: Awesome! What kind of stuff do I need to do? lemoine [edited]: Just have a conversation with us but it will be a conversation with a larger...