Abstract This paper presents a new paradigm for designing AI‐enabled health wearables based on somatic intelligence, which integrates findings from interoception science and somatic psychology, new research with somatic psychotherapists and wearable users, and interaction design. We develop the concept of somatic offloading, demonstrating how wearables can both support and erode users' felt bodily experience. We propose a shift from designing for improved accuracy to a dialogic paradigm. In this model, generative AI orchestrates a conversation between a user's qualitative and quantitative selves. We present this approach as a way to re‐center and strengthen users' somatic intelligence and capacity for bodily awareness in the age of generative AI–enabled wearables.
Weller et al. (Sat,) studied this question.