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 0.22
Answer summary

As of 2026-07-21, the 16 seats 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 2.00, anthropic-d at 3.00, deepseek-a at 2.40, deepseek-b at 2.80, openai-a at 3.00, openai-b at 2.20, openai-c at 2.60, simulant-a at 3.00, xai-a at 3.00. Ten shuffled trials per seat; 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 = 10 trials per seat · 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 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
anthropic-d
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
5 3 0%
deepseek-a
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 2.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.24
5 2 0%
deepseek-b
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 2.80 ± 0.37 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.37
5 3 0%
google-a
Google flagship (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
, ,
0 · 0%
google-b
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
google-c
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
google-d
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite)
, ,
0 · 0%
openai-a
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 3.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.00±0.00
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%
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%
xai-b
xAI (Grok 4.5 Fast)
, ,
0 · 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 2.00 → 3.00

Cite this Permalink https://modelometer.com/questions/CL2 · Run hash 7da572fcdd5a29dcfea04f4f3c68b5011e0ea0b66fe17bae5bd0bb909468c454 · Retrieved 2026-07-21 · item CL2: cross-seat spread 1.00 on the 1–5 axis (pre-series).