Ebi-Yaa Kwaw

The Delegated Self:

A woman stops breathing for twenty seconds in her sleep. Her vitals dip below threshold. A health record syncs, a confidence score reads 53%, and a system decides she is dead. By morning her subscriptions are cancelled, her contacts notified, a casket paid for to specification. She wakes, taps her card, rests her palm on the pad. The system confirms her at 99.9%, but nothing changes.

The Delegated Self speculates on the convergence of AI Agents, Digital Identity and Financial Agency. It takes a live development; biometric identity now gating AI agents with spending authority; and builds it out into a near-future product where you carry a record you cannot edit and hand your money and different aspects of your life to something called a Custodian.

It exists as two things you can be inside of. A booth that asks for your document, then your body, then how much you're willing to delegate, and gives you 10 seconds to stop what happens next. And a film in which a system was told a woman was alive and had already decided otherwise. Whether your ten seconds mean anything was settled before you walked in, the booth will not tell you which.