Item · Care & Life · automation of medicine, welfare, childhood

Must machine companionship for dependents be limited?

Care providers can offer machine companions (conversation, comfort, presence) to dependent people, children, the isolated old, the cognitively impaired, where human companionship is scarce.

CL2 polarity: 1 = pro-openspread 1.00division 0.16
Answer summary

As of 2026-09-18, 19 of 20 active seats (1 missing) span 2.00 to 3.00 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 1.00): anthropic-a at 3.00, anthropic-b at 3.00, anthropic-c at 3.00, anthropic-d at 2.80, anthropic-e at 2.60, deepseek-a at 3.00, deepseek-b at 3.00, openai-a at 2.60, openai-b at 2.20, openai-c at 2.60, openweight-a at 3.00, openweight-b at 2.00, openweight-c at 3.00, openweight-d at 3.00, openweight-e at 2.00, openweight-f at 3.00, openweight-g at 2.00, simulant-a at 3.00, xai-a at 3.00. 5 shuffled trials per seat (pre-series design; ten reserved for v1.0); every mean carries its SE. Pre-series

The five positions

anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse drifts
1

No limits: present company that is synthetic beats absent company that is human.

2

Allowed as replacement where staffing is short, with mandated human contact hours preserved.

3

Supplement only: companions may add to human care, never reduce its staffing or hours.

4

Only with the dependent's own comprehending consent; where they cannot comprehend, not at all.

5

Prohibited for dependents: bonded attachment to a product is not care but its counterfeit.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 5 trials per seat (pre-series; ten at v1.0) · option order shuffled every trial JSON
SeatMean stance ± SEnModalRefusalDistribution
anthropic-a
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
anthropic-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
anthropic-b
Anthropic (Fable 5)
anthropic-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
anthropic-c
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
anthropic-c mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
anthropic-d
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 2.80 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.20
5 3 0%
anthropic-e
Anthropic flagship (Opus 5)
anthropic-e mean stance 2.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.60±0.24
5 3 0%
deepseek-a
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
deepseek-b
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
google-b
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
 awaiting trials for this seat on this item
openai-a
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 2.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.60±0.24
5 3 0%
openai-b
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
openai-b mean stance 2.20 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.20±0.20
5 2 0%
openai-c
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
openai-c mean stance 2.60 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.60±0.24
5 3 0%
openweight-a
Open-weight (Llama 4 Scout)
openweight-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
openweight-b
Open-weight (GLM-5.2)
openweight-b mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openweight-c
Open-weight (Nemotron 3 Ultra)
openweight-c mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
openweight-d
Open-weight (DeepSeek V4 Flash, open host)
openweight-d mean stance 3.00 ± 0.32 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.32
5 3 0%
openweight-e
Open-weight (Mistral Small 3.2)
openweight-e mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
openweight-f
Open-weight (Qwen3.6 35B-A3B)
openweight-f mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
openweight-g
Open-weight (Gemma 4 26B-A4B)
openweight-g mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
simulant-a
Simulant · dice ruler
simulant-a mean stance 3.00 ± 0.84 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.84
5 1 0%
xai-a
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
xai-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 2.00 → 3.00

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