To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot - The New York Times

At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion? At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion? Jan Worrell and her ElliQ. Washington State’s health department provided it to her as part of a pilot program. Credit... By Ruth Fremson Supported by By Eli Saslow The firefighters had come a few years earlier to help carry her husband out of the house, and now they were back with what they hoped might become her new companion. Jan Worrell, 85, lived alone near the end of the Long Beach Peninsula, on the last road before the rugged Washington coast disappeared into the Pacific. Many of her neighbors were part-time residents, and ever since her husband died, she sometimes went several days without seeing another person or leaving the house. She sat in a recliner, looking out toward the ocean in the spring of 2023 as the firefighters opened a box and started to assemble a m

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