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Towards a Custody Taxonomy of Inherited Automation

A field inventory of 61 households running schedules set by people who no longer live there

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities inventories 412 timed and scheduled behaviours across 61 recently transferred households, scoring each on attributability, amendability, and accommodation. Fewer than half could be both named and amended; the poster proposes a four-class custody taxonomy (attested, inherited, orphaned, feral) and finds households accommodate inherited schedules rather than amend them.

AuthorsIben Chikere, Marek Solheim
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
FundingAnticipatory Capability Fund: Running the Roster Consultation Before a Surf Club Drafts Its Handover Note ($419,637)
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.szl9um
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_szl9um,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Marek Solheim},
  title        = {Towards a Custody Taxonomy of Inherited Automation: A field inventory of 61 households running schedules set by people who no longer live there},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.szl9um},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-settlement-day-hands-szl9um/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}