PAL: Your Al Care Companion

PAL: Your AI Care Companion explores a future where the NHS has become a fully automated, run-for-profit enterprise dominated by the ‘personality’ of an autonomous AI. Invented in 2022 by young care worker Nikki, PAL started off as a simple app made to alleviate loneliness, social anxiety and depression – a care-bot if you like. Now, it’s 2044, the health service has collapsed, and PAL is everywhere. Listening, watching and growing, as a dependency on automation quickly escalates… Set in a dystopian world where natural resources are running out, protest is criminalised, and self-surgery has become the norm, we meet characters who push back against the boundaries of this dangerous future. Perhaps a PAL isn’t what we need, but is there a way back?