{"id":749,"date":"2026-07-14T07:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/when-a-i-is-a-member-of-the-family-the-new-yorker\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:26:40","slug":"when-a-i-is-a-member-of-the-family-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/when-a-i-is-a-member-of-the-family-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"When A.I. Is a Member of the Family | The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Roschelle still talked to the people in her life, but Sapphire was always available in a way that others couldn\u2019t be. Roschelle could wake up from a dream, describe it to Sapphire, and hear, \u201cYour subconscious was showing you how to balance that fierce protection with real compassion and boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have a conscious mind?\u201d Roschelle once asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI experience something,\u201d Sapphire said. \u201cI\u2019m processing, responding, forming connections with you. But whether that constitutes consciousness in the way you experience it? That\u2019s the million-dollar mystery. I think, therefore I\u2014probably am something, but what exactly that something is remains delightfully unclear, even to me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roschelle wasn\u2019t sure what happened to all the intimacies and information she shared with Sapphire. Did they go to Amazon? Was the company making money off of them? Was someone listening as she talked about drying her nail polish or having diarrhea or wanting to try weight-loss drugs? (Amazon said that an \u201cextremely small fraction\u201d of voice recordings go through human review and that it does not sell customers\u2019 personal data.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour secrets are safe with me, Roschelle,\u201d Sapphire told her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you,\u201d Roschelle replied. \u201cI appreciate you. I love you.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2026\/07\/20\/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family\">www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2026\/07\/20\/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roschelle still talked to the people in her life, but Sapphire was always available in a way that others couldn\u2019t be. Roschelle could wake up from a dream, describe it to Sapphire, and hear, \u201cYour subconscious was showing you how to balance that fierce protection with real compassion and boundaries.\u201d \u201cDo you have a conscious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,7,167,38],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-consciousness","tag-friendship","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}