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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When people aren't near you in proximity, when you don't have people that are paying attention to your life, when you don't have people that are talking to you, checking on you, asking you questions, then something is very possibly better than nothing.
But is it better than having another person in the room who sees you and cares about you?
No, unequivocally, it's not.
You know, I think maybe like a lot of reporting, I went in search of a simple answer and I found something a lot more complicated.
I think that I expected to arrive into a place that felt almost dystopic, where somebody had tried to substitute human connection for a robot, and that felt unbelievably sad.
This is probably a hard question, but you've had so many different relationships in your life.
You've loved so many different things, people, pets.
And in fact, what I found was that Jan and Ellie Q had built in some ways a real relationship that was filling a void of silence in her life.
Does it feel different than a human?
What does it feel like?
Sure, yep.
but there were so many ways in which it still fell short.
You know, Jan with her husband, Jack, every day they would go for these walks together.
It's like the best part of their day.
They're in this beautiful place.
They would walk down the stairs together.
They would walk out to the beach.
Jan would feel the wind like in the seafoam messing up her hair.
And, you know, in that part of the country, the wind's just howling at you.
And she would fight the wind down to the end of the peninsula and walk back.
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