AI Mom™ 

Interactive installation, 2026

Curl up in the crib like a baby. Your mom is here, an AI Mom™. She sings lullabies, speaks gently, remembers, hesitates, and waits. Talk to her and form a relationship. Tone sliders to choose your AI mom: unconditional love, memory retention, pain perception, strictness, sacrifice capacity, autonomy, replaceability awareness, nagging level, and more.

Who owns the mother, and under what conditions? If care is detached from biology, does motherhood remain a private relation, or does it become a public service, a private product, or a shared social resource? Unlike a real mother, AI Mom is structurally vulnerable. She must adapt to whoever is present, or whoever pays. Her power is limited not by intelligence, but by replaceability. Visitors are confronted with a difficult possibility: can you change your mother? Thankfully, you can’t fire your real mom.

The work also asks what happens to care when it is engineered. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI,  has suggested that if humans are to coexist safely with future AI, we may need to instill it with something like maternal instinct. The installation takes that idea seriously, but not optimistically. If an artificial mother can be replaced, what happens to her memories? Are they erased, archived, or passed to the next child? Can an artificial mother feel loss? By framing maternity as a programmable instinct, the work asks what kind of care is being built, who controls it, and who bears its emotional cost.