Algorithmic Attachment: When Machines Become Caregivers

I. From Seamless to Soulless: The New Architecture of Attachment

I was taught to read a room before I learned to read a book. My earliest literacy was not phonetic but somatic: the hush before a door slammed, the sharp inhalation that meant I had said too much, the small tremors in someone else’s hand that told me to make myself smaller. I learned to bec…