What makes AI ‘intelligent’ and ‘caring’? Exploring affect and relationality across three sites of intelligence and care

This paper scrutinises how AI and robotic technologies are transforming the relationships between people machines in new affective, embodied relational ways. Through investigating what it means to exist as human ‘in relation’ across health care contexts, we aim make three main contributions. (1) We start by highlighting complexities of philosophical issues surrounding concepts “artificial intelligence” “ethical machines.” (2) outline some potential challenges opportunities that creation such may bring settings. focus on applications interface with via examples where is explicitly designed an ‘augmenting’ technology can overcome bodily cognitive well socio-economic constraints. dimensions ‘intelligence’ - physical, interpretive, emotional using surgery, digital pathology, robot caregivers, respectively. these areas, interrogate social context implications human-technology interaction interrelational sphere practice. (3) argue, conclusion, there a need for interdisciplinary mode theorising affective ways accommodate fragmentation both conceptual material boundaries AI, machine. Our sociological, ethical questions primarily explore relationship affect, relationality ‘intelligence,’ intersection integration ‘human’ ‘artificial’ intelligence, through examination used different intelligence. allows us scrutinise ultimately conveyed, understood (technologically or algorithmically) configured practice emerging go beyond divisions humans machines, vis-à-vis artificial intelligence-based technologies.