{
  "id": 5347,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23635v1",
  "title": "From Rights to Rites: Expectations Management in Smart-Home AI",
  "summary": "Domestic voice assistants and smart-home devices are increasingly embedded in everyday routines, yet their ethics are often treated as an afterthought or delegated to compliance teams. To explore how expectations about smart-home AI are constructed and managed, we conducted 33 semi-structured interviews with designers, developers, and researchers from major smart-home platforms (Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Azure IoT, and Google Nest). Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, we develop Expec",
  "authors": "Varad Vishwarupe, Ivan Flechais, Marina Jirotka, Nigel Shadbolt",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": "google,microsoft,amazon",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-26T09:49:07.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:40.222Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5347",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23635v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}