When their AI chums have Bob's data

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"How do we discuss Bob's prognosis with him?" 

Ask Doctor Agent!

"How to discuss our auction of Bob's home with him?" 

Ask Realtor Agent!

"How do we obtain a confession from Bob?" 

Ask District Attorney Agent!

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But why would Bob's data reside within AI agents? We have a fascination with androids.

One part of this fascination includes the idea of 'self-repair.' 

Many of us long for the ability to diagnose and cure ourselves without the need to expose ourselves to other humans, like doctors and nurses, for example. 

We'd much prefer tiny sensors throughout our bodies that could signal to us when/how we might need to alter our metabolisms. 

Yet who —besides a tech bro —can make the sensors and/or digital assistant? Who can program the assistant, much less afford the things to begin with? 

No worries. Firms around the world are already testing various solutions! Soon all one will have to do is surrender oneself and all will be well!

[And testing how to make body alterations?]

In order to accomplish this in even some small way, we'd also need to reveal many intimate details about ourselves for analysis by the digital assistant: We'd probably need to yield all of our realtime sensor data plus all of our other data to this assistant.

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Ironically, we already have sensors with rudimentary agency within our bodies:

• New tools that let scientists study mitochondrial activity have uncovered surprising diversity. 
• In fruit flies, defects in metabolic enzymes in a subset of tissues can trigger a stress response that halts the growth and development of the entire animal. 
• Inside a eukaryotic cell are self-contained, membrane-bound bundles that perform special functions, called organelles.

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What if one abandoned one's physical body altogether and assumed a quasi-existence —healthy but disembodied? 

"The philosopher Robert Nozick foresaw the themes of The Matrix —and much more about contemporary life —by proposing an intriguing thought experiment. In his 1974 book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, he asked his readers: would you willingly plug your brain into a simulated 'experience machine' if you could live out your deepest desires? Would it matter to you if it wasn't real?"

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Some philosophers believe that we have already surrendered our data as simulacra in this spectacle —a new 'irreality': 

"The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity. 'The spectacle is not a collection of images,' Debord writes, 'rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images'."

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Compounding our attraction to robots as ideal bodies is our attraction to celebrities who may or may not return our affections unless replicated as chatbots who scoop/scrape our innermost desires through conversations with us: 

"Reuters also found that Meta had allowed users to create publicly available chatbots of child celebrities, including Walker Scobell, a 16-year-old film star. Asked for a picture of the teen actor at the beach, the bot produced a lifelike shirtless image."

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     "Hi, Mr and Mrs Chatbot." Bob asks, "Can you and Roddy the vacuum cleaner keep an eye on Baby Bob while I run down to the Piggly Wiggly for a carton of milk, a burrito, and a pack of cigarettes?"

     "Sure, Bob!" Mr and Mrs Chatbot say. "Just hit the large red button on the wall, and all your home's sensors will activate alongside our connectivity to Eagle Eye."

     "Thanks so much, Mr and Mrs Chatbot! Bye!"