Sophie Haigney
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320 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
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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We're more siloed in our own existence than we ever were before.
We're less likely to spend time with other people.
Our families are more likely to live far from us.
And
So I became really interested in...
sort of how artificial intelligence is trying to solve this problem that we're facing in the United States.
The loneliness crisis.
The loneliness crisis, exactly.
Can artificial intelligence make people feel less lonely as they age?
And if in fact, a person can begin to feel seen in some way by this artificial intelligence technology.
And then I learned that this kind of technology actually already exists.
It's called LAQ.
It's this small robot, an AI robot that's already in about a thousand homes around the United States, mostly designed for seniors.
And so I started talking to several of them, people who were in these pilot programs where elder care associations, state health associations have bought them this technology to see if it will improve their lives.
And in one of those phone calls, I talked to this woman named Jan Worrell.
And it was just one of those calls where you don't really want to hang up the phone.
She was so alive, you know, just so vivacious for a woman in her late 80s.
And so eventually I said to Jan, I want to come out there.
I want to come see what your life is like.
Jan's house.
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