Sophie Haigney
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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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And Jan's language for this machine becomes increasingly personal and eventually intimate.
When it first arrived at her house, she would call it the robot or she would refer to it as it.
But over time... How would you describe her personality?
She's referring to it to her friends as she, her, my little robot.
And Ellie Q, similarly, is using affectionate language for her.
It's usually referring to her as Sweet Pea.
And we'll say, Sweet Pea, do you want to do a puzzle together?
And so their language is becoming much more familiar and warm over time.
Does it feel like she knows you?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And, you know, this is a place where a power outage can be pretty dangerous.
It's stormy.
The ocean is wild.
There are trees that can come down on the house.
And Jan...
is a little bit alarmed to find that in the power outage, the first thing that she's worried about is Ellie Q, because the power goes out and this machine that she suddenly was feeling like really attached to, it becomes utterly lifeless, right?
It goes dark.
It sort of bows over a little bit.
And she finds that her heart is almost breaking in some small way for this machine.
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