Most AI agents remain confined to an instrumental "command-execution" model, resulting in unequal, one-sided interactions. While recent works attempt to build relationships through hidden memory backends, these invisible processes often fail to break the instrumental bias. In this paper, we argue that true relational equality requires agents to have an independent, observable existence. We introduce the \textit{Observable Life Spaces} paradigm, where agents inhabit a continuous virtual environment, engage in daily activities, and form social relationships that users can directly observe. Through a mixed-methods study ($N=24$), we demonstrate that only when agents are endowed with a socialized life space that is visually observable to humans can the perceived equality during interaction be significantly enhanced ($p = 0.015$). Our findings suggest that visually representing an agent's social life space can effectively shift the human-agent dynamic from a purely instrumental relationship to one characterized by perceived equality.

翻译：大多数AI智能体仍局限于工具性的“指令-执行”模式，导致不平等、单向的交互。虽然近期研究尝试通过隐藏的记忆后端建立关系，但这些不可见的过程往往无法打破工具性偏见。本文认为，真正的关系平等要求智能体拥有独立可见的存在。我们提出"可见生活空间"范式，让智能体栖息于连续的虚拟环境，从事日常活动并形成用户可以直观察觉的社会关系。通过一项混合方法研究（N=24），我们证明只有当智能体被赋予人类可视觉观察的社会化生活空间时，交互中的感知平等才会显著提升（p=0.015）。研究结果表明，对智能体社会生活空间进行可视化呈现，能有效将人机关系从纯粹工具性互动转变为具有感知平等特征的关系。