Ep 2 – Economic Recession and Sentient Computers

Seif has an interesting take on relieving the economic recession which is inevitably happening because of the pandemic. Seif argues against stopping consumer spending as a solution to the "Great Lockdown" recession. Munodiwa talks about her experience using Replika, which is a chatbot that collects your entire digital footprint, loads it into a system that finds patterns in data, and creates a bot version of you. It works by learning your speech patterns and habits, thoughts, hopes and fears.