Episode three – Repocalypse now

When Eugenia Kuyda created Replika, the AI companion app, she had no idea it would be downloaded millions of times all around the world. The results were more powerful than she could ever have predicted. But so was the backlash
Thanks to Kate Devlin at King’s College London for sharing her expertise for this episode. Her book is called Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots.This episode contains a reference to suicide. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or