She asked if you would be home before bedtime.

Text exchange - Sophie Mercer and LENA-4

A family’s new android caregiver becomes indispensable to their daughter in ways no one agreed to.

LENA-4: An AI Nanny Thriller

As androids become woven into homes, families, and relationships, their promise of help begins to blur into dependence, attachment, and control.

AI nannies, android carers and smart companions: near-future stories of technology gone too far, told entirely through found documents.