Sophie Haigney
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320 appearances
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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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Closest family member to her is in Portland, Oregon, which is more than 100 miles from her house.
So she's really aging alone in this place.
Jan had come to this peninsula more than a decade ago with her husband.
His name was Jack.
Jack now has passed.
She's been alone in this house for six or seven years.
And Jan really does not want to spend the end of her life in a different place.
She wants to be in her house.
It's the thing that she loves.
It's the thing that still connects her back to Jack.
to wake up every morning and have her coffee and sit and watch those crab boats as they disappear out into the water.
She's fiercely determined.
And for Jan, determination doesn't do her justice.
This is a woman who climbed mountains, who ran marathons, who responded early in her life to a divorce by being like, I'm going to prove my husband wrong.
I'm going to sign up to go climb Mount Rainier.
And who, with a pickaxe at 112 pounds, clawed her way up the tallest base-to-peak mountain in the lower 48th.
And the few neighbors in this area who know Jan are all concerned about her.
The fire department, which is several miles away, they go and they check in.
And it was the fire department who actually identified Jan as a great candidate for this pilot program to receive this artificial intelligence machine to maybe help provide some company to her and some companionship inside that house.
And... The fire department, some of those guys said to me that when they went to Jan's house, they felt a little heartbroken every time they would leave because Jan is a really social person.
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