{"id":749740,"date":"2026-04-24T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/749740\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:33:21","slug":"i-went-to-the-largest-aging-conference-ai-and-age-tech-sparked-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/749740\/","title":{"rendered":"I Went to the Largest Aging Conference: AI and Age Tech Sparked Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In every time block, there was at least one session that directly addressed age tech, AI, wearables, and innovation. A recurring theme among the panels was that older people want to use AI, but many don&#8217;t know what options are available. AARP has found that tech use has surged among older people in the US in recent years, with 90% owning a smartphone and 30% <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/disney-ai-adoption-dashboard-tokens-tokenmaxxing-claude-cursor-josh-damaro-2026-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">using AI<\/a>. While many are still hesitant about using new tech, plenty are interested but don&#8217;t yet know how to apply the tech to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Many panels, such as &#8220;Bridging the Gap: Addressing Ageism in Age Tech,&#8221; highlighted gaps in AI training data that are often skewed by stereotypes, surveillance concerns, and designs driven by what developers sometimes incorrectly think older people want.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists across the conference argued that age-inclusive design should integrate autonomy, flexibility, and an accurate assessment of older people&#8217;s needs. For instance, some robotics technology, like ElliQ, was developed with insights from older people, such as serving as a companion that encourages human interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In every time block, there was at least one session that directly addressed age tech, AI, wearables, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":749741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[308755,1081,691,738,32811,234460,10804,41512,2074,21678,246,3042,56496,6291,294214,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-749740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-age-tech-sparked-debate","tag-aging","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-attendee","tag-belonging","tag-companion","tag-concern","tag-conference","tag-equity","tag-family","tag-neighbor","tag-old-people","tag-other","tag-social-connection","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116459471319579909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}