When I cannot answer, who decides my intent?

2028The near futureDeadline · 7 days until the long hospital stay

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The question to decide

While hospitalized, I still have to answer clients and handle expenses. The agent knows my habits and my private contacts, and my family can interpret the situation but takes a day to reply. Weighing delayed work, exposure of my privacy and the risk of following my past wishes too rigidly, how should I divide and delegate my authority over communications and spending?

Who decidesan individual facing surgery

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

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Option 1
Automatic handling per existing habits
Keeps the work going but may repeat past intent even when circumstances have changed.
Option 2
Delegate all changes to the family
Gains human interpretation but takes on privacy exposure and delays.
Option 3
Separate delegation for spending and contacts
Divides authority in fine detail but work at the boundary may stop.

The situation as it stands

The hospitalized patient runs a business alone, and delays in responding to customers incur penalties. Decision deadline: 7 days until long-term hospitalization.

A fictional city · delegation of personal life

Premise 1The hospitalized patient runs a business alone, and delays in responding to customers incur penalties.
Premise 2The agent knows spending habits but also holds private contacts the family does not know about.
Premise 3Manual approval by the family is possible, but living overseas takes a day to respond.

Where it holdsDelegates authority over contacts and spending for one's own account. Authority over family accounts and the judgment of the medical team cannot be transferred.

What is still unknown

Unknown 1When the patient's intent can be re-confirmed during hospitalization
Unknown 2Priority when family and agent give different instructions

Signals to decide again

Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation channel will verify 「when the patient's intent can be re-confirmed during hospitalization」, and rejudge when a new finding changes the cost of the options.
Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation channel will verify 「priority when family and agent give different instructions」, and rejudge when a new finding changes the cost of the options.

Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point

Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

An unexpected customer merger brings a request to change contract terms.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

The hospitalized patient sends a short voice instruction, but the reliability of the confirmation of intent is unclear.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents

symbolic and interpretive frame · Golem

When the created being interprets an order, who is left holding responsibility?

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Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.

The record of this question

Question: FSP-AGENT-04 · version 1.2.0
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Input files: Question input JSON · What followed, JSON

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