BMII Body / Mind Irreversibility Index

Not everything a human can do should be done by a human.

Modern operations increasingly combine people, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Decisions about who or what should perform an operation therefore involve more than capability, efficiency and conventional risk.

BMII introduces another consideration: Irreversibility.

Some consequences can be recovered from.

Others permanently change the body or mind.

BMII considers bodily and mind irreversibility in determining deployment boundaries between human and non-human participation.

It can support organizations in developing deployment policies for operations involving humans, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Its purpose is not to replace existing safety or occupational health systems, but to support decisions about where human exposure should end and technological participation should begin.

Preserve the human.

Preserve the capability.

Continue the operation.

We welcome the dialogue.

I still remember how I got into open water swimming.

I was running weekly as part of my routine when, one cloudy day at a train station, I stopped dead in my tracks. I stood there in pain. My knees would not move any further except through walking. The doctor later implied that years of vigorous skateboarding may have worn them out.

Skateboarding had already begun slipping away because of my weakening eyesight. Without a stable visual latch, balance becomes uncertain. Then my back followed the same pattern as my knees. Slowly over the years, recovery had to be added. What could once be resolved with 24 hours of rest began asking for 72. Anything more major, like tendinitis, demanded six months. I now had to cushion the impact with the waters.

As these changes accumulated, my thoughts often went to those who place their bodies in harm’s way so others may live more comfortably. I think of those whose daily work depends on safety standards being implemented to the letter. Their limbs are not abstractions. They are exposed to consequence.

There is a clarity that arrives without announcement. Certain losses do not reverse. Certain thresholds, once crossed, do not reopen. I suspect I am not alone in coming to this realization.

With time, we begin to understand that what is truly at stake is the narrowing space between mobility and mortality — and the quiet, uncompromising fact of irreversibility, and that we should not begin what we cannot reverse.

-Ian-

Irreversibility: Mobility x Mortality

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