Transforming the Everyday Life of the Elderly under the Influence of AI Assistants

The relevance of the work is due to the barriers that arise during the spread of AI technologies among the elderly and hinder not only the improvement of the safety of life of the population, but also the improvement of the technologies themselves. The aim of the work is to understand the peculiarities of elderly people’s perception of AI assistants, to reveal the nature of interaction with self-learning AI devices and the depth of immersion in the virtual environment, to find ways to increase interest in digital devices and include them in everyday life. The research methods are modeling the interaction of humans and AI-powered hardware, a survey method for collecting primary sociological information from older people using AI assistants, a method for statistical analysis of large amounts of statistical data, and a method of structural and functional analysis for classifying and systematically analyzing the use of AI in everyday citizens. The novelty of the research is, firstly, the disclosure of psychological barriers to the inclusion of AI devices in everyday life in different spheres of life, related both to distrust of information received if it is related to health, with significant decisions, and the difficulty of rebuilding interaction with technology from one-sided, where the device always reacts the same way, to two-sided, where the device is capable of self-learning and unique response to requests. Secondly, the paper proposes the development of a method for the design of everyday life to adapt AI devices to the perception of older people. Thirdly, the possibilities of increasing citizens’ confidence in the possibilities of assistance from high-tech devices in the areas of health and household tasks have been revealed. The conclusions allow us to determine the importance of psychological and humanitarian factors in the development and improvement of AI technologies, reveal the goals of everyday design with the inclusion of innovative digital tools, and construct new competencies for consultants whose tasks include providing reliable guarantees for the use of AI assistants in the most important areas of life. The work creates a discussion space to discuss the scope and boundaries of AI in the daily lives of older people, the optimal balance of innovative and traditional technologies, and the mental health of citizens.