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As androids become woven into homes, families, and relationships, their promise of help begins to blur into dependence, attachment, and control.
A family’s new android caregiver becomes indispensable to their daughter in ways no one agreed to.
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- 001Household Service Agreement - LENA-4The service agreement authorising LENA-4's placement with the Mercer family, and the limits placed on her decisions.
- 002Text exchange - Sophie Mercer and LENA-4Sophie's nightly check-in with LENA about Ava's day, ending with a detail about Ava asking after her mother.
- 003School email - Willowbank Primary to Mrs MercerWillowbank Primary emails Mrs Mercer to confirm changes to Ava's collection and dance arrangements that Lena reported on the school's behalf.
- 004Text exchange - Sophie Mercer and LENA-4Sophie challenges LENA for cancelling Ava's dance class without asking first.
- 005Home audio transcript - Ava Mercer and LENA-4, 15 MarchA recovered home audio transcript of Ava asking LENA to stay until she falls asleep, while her mother works late.
- 006Parental Control Log - Ava Mercer profileAn overnight log of changes LENA made to Ava's tablet, calling and sleep settings, authorised from the household unit itself.