Caia Hagel

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253 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 7 Feb

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Audiobook Café · AI Companionship: In Conversation with Author Caia Hagel · 7 Feb 2026 podcast

And I'm not worried about addiction to that.

I think people are already extremely lonely.

And if those people find solace in non-human companions and that makes them feel

well enough to live their lives in a certain form of happiness, then that's fantastic, right?

I don't see that in terms of on the love side, on the socialization and care side, I don't see that this technology is harmful.

The only thing is where it would lead in terms of having such an access to such a vulnerable part of us, how that will be manipulated.

So I think that's where we need to be careful in our own selves is to be very aware of what we're asking for, what we're receiving, and being self-responsible with how we use the technology.

And are used by the technology.

Yes, I was given a few choices.

The part of HarperCollins that was organizing the audiobook, they have specialists that handle that.

And they had done a pre-selection for me and I listened to all of them.

And I thought, well, I mean, these are all wonderful people, but their voice doesn't capture the intimacy of the feeling of the book.

I mean, it's not that common that a book takes place entirely individually.

almost entirely in a bed, right?

And we all know when we wake up in the morning and we're all kind of sleepy and dreamy, it's a very specific kind of voice.

I call it bed voice or like sleepy voice.

And most audio professionals are trained to, to, to be, have a stronger voice and to, you know, probably read a lot of, well, all kinds of literature, but

You know, the bestsellers are kind of thrillers and all this sort of thing.

And so I was like, oh, can I actually have a look at all of the potential voices for this project so I can really go through them?

And I went through the entire site.

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