Sophie Haigney
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320 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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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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I think it's both.
You know, mostly I think what that moment reflects is that this machine has gotten to know Jan really well.
It's watching her.
It's studying her.
It's figuring out everything about her life that it can so that it can meet her needs.
And to Jan, she's willing to have this machine listening to her, getting to know her, because that's what it takes to build intimacy.
That's the only way that this product can respond to her in the way that she wants it to respond.
But to other people around her, that started to feel scary and even a little bit dangerous.
One of her sons comes over and he says, can we unplug LAQ?
Or he won't have conversations with her about certain things in the house.
He doesn't want to talk about her will or family finances when he feels like this other thing is there listening, collecting data, retaining it.
So there's great irony in the fact that in order to have like really deep conversations
human-seeming conversations with this machine, Jan's conversations with one of her sons become a little bit more robotic and stilted and guarded in order to sort of interact in that space.
Yeah.
And if so, that would be a really brutal outcome because as it is now, L.E.Q.
is sort of a facsimile of a relationship.
It's not actually a person that you're relating to.
And in no way is it going to be able to compensate for the human to human relationship.
relationships that we have with each other.
What it is, is a substitute when those relationships don't exist.
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