Where should the government be? It should be where there's something essential that society needs that the free market cannot or will not solve.

This is a perfect example of that. It is not profitable for these companies to go in and provide internet access to rural areas.

We're spread so thin, governmentally, and we're involving ourselves in so many different aspects of life

that we end up overlooking things that are as fundamental as Wi-Fi in a pandemic where

kids are being compelled to be taking classes on Zoom.

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Guptapta. I'm Corey Brought. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, we have a big show today, but before we get into any of the details, I just want to shout out the Dacey Crime Podcast. That's the DESI Crime Podcast, one of the members of the Lost Debate Podcasting Network. They have an episode this week, which is near and dear to

my heart. It involves a really tragic murder of seven members of the same family in the same area

of India that my father came from. And it's a really tragic story and it's a really thrilling ride.

So you should go wherever you get your podcast, go to the

DESE Crime Podcast. That's D-E-S-I Crime Podcast. And with that, Corey, I'll kick it over to you.

On today's show, it's hashtag Tech Tuesday, patent pending. You might also wish there was a patent

pending on how companies use your location data after we're done today. And it might be a while before self-driving cars are safe enough to change the world.

We'll discuss new crash data from Tesla and others.

Twitter still isn't real life, according to new data from Pew.

We'll talk about who's over and underrepresented on that platform.

Then we'll ask why rural America's Wi-Fi access is still buffering. But first things first, Google is having an ex-Machina moment as one of its engineers claims an AI chat bot has become sentient.

The bot is named Lambda, so there's one point against it being a person.

But in all seriousness, this whole saga poses real questions on how we should think about artificial intelligence

and the future of that technology. Ricky, are you worried about your Roomba becoming sentient

and then unionizing as a result? Honestly, not that specific scenario, but in general, yes.

I think this stuff is kind of creepy, but I don't really lend a lot of credence to the specific claim.

So what happened here is there's a software engineer with seven years of experience at Google.

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