My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching
It was January of 2026 in North Seattle, and my 86-year-old father was struggling to move around his house.
“I’m stumbling around here,” my 86-year-old father told a guest in his home this past January.
“Oooh, ooh, careful,” the guest replied.
“Yeah, I almost fell down.”
Meanwhile, I’m 5,000 miles away in Austria, unaware of any trouble until months later, when I read a transcript of the entire incident via Sensi.ai: an always-on, AI-enabled microphone that’s been monitoring my father’s life for nearly a year. His coughs, toilet flushes, and even snippets of private conversations—Sensi records it all.
Sensi was first recommended as a free add-on to my dad’s care because, like most older adults, he would like to spend the remainder of his life in his own home. Once a modest, single-story clapboard, it was yassified in the ’90s by a couple from Vegas, who added a...
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