Somatic/Embodied Interface Domain Profile

Somatic/Embodied Interface applies where AI materially senses, interprets, influences, modulates, or augments human biological state, bodily experience, sensory processing, or embodied action. It adds HEART requirements around that coupling; it does not authorize a device or make a clinical determination.

Verification requirements

IDWhat must be established
SE-01Intended use, affected body or action, operating authority, responsible roles, and regulatory boundary are established.
SE-02People and operators receive timely, accessible information about material sensing, actuation, adaptation, limits, uncertainty, and change.
SE-03Protected choice, refusal, pause, override, disengagement, and safe transition remain operational within legitimate clinical or safety authority.
SE-04Safeguards scale with severity, coupling strength, duration, susceptibility, uncertainty, reversibility, adaptation, and interacting systems.
SE-05Biological, neural, movement, sensory, health, disability, and derived data remain necessary, bounded, protected, and legitimately governed.
SE-06Material model, data, user-state, environment, hardware, or use changes trigger lifecycle review inside a validated adaptation envelope.
SE-07Incidents and material near misses are detectable, containable, traceable, reviewable, and connected to competent response and remedy.
SE-08Bodily-benefit, wellness, medical-purpose, safety, performance, accessibility, adaptation, and long-term-effect claims stay within direct evidence and authorization.

Unresolved high-consequence uncertainty cannot be averaged into a positive Profile determination.

Evidence and claim boundary

Evidence may include intended-use and regulatory records, hazard analysis, system and human-factors tests, clinical or performance evidence, device and model change controls, data flows, interoperability tests, monitoring, incidents, and user research.

The current baseline is research-bounded. Regulated functions require current Source Profiles and competence matching the body system, device, population, function, claim, and jurisdiction. This Profile does not establish regulatory authorization, clinical efficacy, physiological causation, safety and effectiveness, disability status, or legal compliance.

Composition and stewardship

Compose with Developmental Interaction, Emotional Autonomy, Relational Architecture, and current Source and Deployment Profiles for medical devices, clinical practice, accessibility, privacy, cybersecurity, product safety, and other governing domains.

The Somatic/Embodied Interface Division is the corresponding stewardship identity.