Rentable Expertise · Book 5
When Capability Gets a Body
How Embodied AI Changes Companionship, Care, and Who We Depend On
Explore how embodied AI could change companionship, care, and independence, and what we should allow machines to decide on our behalf.
Available on Kindle and Audible · Quancepts Press
What kinds of care will we choose to receive from machines once they are capable of giving it?
01
Capability meets human need
Consider what embodied AI could make possible in everyday life and as we age. Compare it with the care people can actually access, not an idealized alternative.
02
Backstory, memory, and shared history
Explore how a machine's identity, its memory of a person, and the experiences they share could shape trust and attachment over time.
03
What survives the machine?
Consider narrative patina, the meaning accumulated through shared history, and provenance, the record of that history. What might continuity mean when a machine needs replacing?
04
Care and delegated authority
Keep the recipient's preferences, dignity, and independence at the center. Ask what machines may decide, where human presence matters, and how machine care could support human relationships.
Read this book on its own, or explore the full Rentable Expertise series. Start with the decision in front of you.
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