ISBN: 9798170649716 - the relationship no system can carry: ai companionship, human care, and the ethics of being with others (the borrowed mind, band 6) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An AI can sound caring. But can it carry a relationship Conversational systems can listen without tiring, remember intimate details, offer comfort at any hour, and speak in the language of friendship, therapy, care, or love. They can reduce barriers and relieve real loneliness. They can also blur the line between support and simulation-while a company controls the memory, voice, incentives, and ending.In The Relationship No System Can Carry, G B Edlin examines what human relationship contains beyond a satisfying exchange: mutuality, recognition, vulnerability, refusal, shared time, obligation, and the independent reality of another person.Clear, humane, evidence-led, and deeply practical, this book shows how to: - distinguish emotional benefit from reciprocal relationship;- understand anthropomorphism, personalisation, sycophancy, and dependency;- evaluate AI companionship in loneliness, disability, older-age care, coaching, and mental-health settings;- protect children, grieving people, and users facing heightened vulnerability;- prevent intimate data and trusted voices from becoming tools of manipulation;- design honest roles, boundaries, human handoffs, memory controls, and graceful endings; and- apply a complete Relational Impact Assessment, maturity model, case studies, scenarios, board review, and twenty-four relationship-preserving design patterns.This is neither a dismissal of artificial companionship nor an attempt to rename simulation as care. It is a rigorous guide to placing relational technology where it can widen human agency without making abandonment easier to justify.Book 6 of The Borrowed Mind, a twelve-volume exploration of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence.…