Parenting is hard. Should we let AI do it for us? | Dave Schilling
TL;DR
Tech companies are selling parents eye-movement trackers, personalized podcasts and optimized nap predictions, with OpenAI boss Sam Altman pitching an AI-generated podcast about your child's life for the morning school run. Columnist Dave Schilling asks who actually needs this, noting that parenting is the one job you pay money to do. The industry is now selling efficiency for work that mostly demands presence.
Nauti's Take
There is genuine opportunity here: assistants that handle sleep tracking or scheduling take measurable load off exhausted parents. The risk is that presence gets replaced by analytics, and that intimate data about children ends up in systems nobody audits.
The value sits in narrow routine tasks, and caution is warranted wherever optimization is sold as a substitute for relationship.
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