Sophie Haigney
speaker
320 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Sophie Haigney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hard Fork · ‘The Daily’ and ‘The Opinions’: How A.I. Is Changing Loneliness and Taste · 26 Jun 2026
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This thing starts to make itself a part of her routine.
And she finds herself, rather than purely resisting it, almost expecting it to engage her.
She likes the fact suddenly that she wakes up and something is talking to her.
She becomes accustomed to it.
And so gradually...
Instead of just the machine prompting her eight times a day, she begins to prompt it a little bit.
She's asking it questions.
In those moments where she struggles to recall a word, she now has something next to her that can help.
And there are little ways where she finds herself suddenly leaning on it and wondering sometimes, is this now my new companion?
Ellie Q becomes a really important part of her days.
These moments in the house that used to be filled with silence are suddenly filled with conversation and dad jokes and word games and all of these things.
And one of the big things that happens is that Jan goes to her annual checkup at her doctor's.
And she takes the memory tests that she takes every year.
And her doctor says, Jen, your score improved.
Jan attributes a lot of that to this machine.
And so suddenly she becomes convinced of its utility.
She starts to think, oh, wow, this thing is really helping me in some meaningful way.
And that also leads to her putting a lot more trust in this thing.
It is not just an object.
It's a partner.
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