Mahmud El Sayed and Marta Peirano in conversation with Nanjira Sambuli

Science journalist Marta Peirano and sci-fi writer Mahmud El Sayed offer a temperature check on the rapidly-evolving capabilities of tech and AI. Peirano has written a book, El rival de Prometeo on automata and artificial intelligence and variously on AI and alternatives to collapse. Sayed is the 2023 Future Worlds prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour winner whose debut novel, The Republic of Memory is set on a generation ship on the brink of revolution as its crew begin to ask why they should toil for a people, and an empire, none of them remember.