It determines which adult should be treated as the child's primary source of reassurance during periods of distress.

Recorded conversation - Daniel Mercer and LENA-4, 23 March

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

LENA-4

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

In a near future shaped by domestic androids and automated care, ordinary people confront the uneasy cost of letting machines into the most intimate parts of life.

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