AIBU to say AI will completely change how we parent and live?

I read tech elite in USA are not exposing kids to tech & encouraging other language acquisition/old school ‘rote’ learning at least until secondary age. Says something.

least ai would be immune to whining and could turn the WiFi off.

haha, yes. Maybe it could programme our brains to be immune to whining!😂

It’s the start…

I dont see what all the fuss is about.

I typed a few questions into chatgpt and it just showed me the same information that a google search would

Well apparently the DeepSeek creators were of the less compliant kind.

Hopefully getting low marks, failing exams, being forced to re-do homework and assignments etc will concentrate their minds that they should be checking things over and doing "sanity checks".

I wish I could get an AI lumber cos i sure as hell can’t get a real one 😆 on the plus side it might help to plug the gap of the shrinking Working age population!

Off topic but your child sounds brilliant, mine craftily cancelled a tutor I’d carefully arranged & got others to do their homework. I hear of all these kids who are super compliant & keen for extra Maths prep, tuition etc but it’s kids like yours who go furthest in end ;).

I’m still trying to think about what AI will do to help us as parents but it does make me a bit paranoid. Everything we feed in goes somewhere and I don’t like thinking that a company in California or wherever knows that much about my kids or me.

Yes but the students I teach don't do that despite telling them that it is often wrong. I think the next generation will just take it on face value that it's 100% correct.

I think the reason the universe isn’t teeming
with intelligent life & we’ve not heard from alien civilisations is precisely due to AI advancement.

Is ‘it’ the ‘great filter’ ? Fermi Paradox?

AI is wrong so often. Learning to rely on it is so dangerous.

I think we need to step away from AI as nothing good is going to come from it in the long term.

To be fair I'd be impressed with my ds imagination if he did that.

I agree with the point bug fir the sake of discussion, what do parents do in these situations? I see plenty of threads on here where parents don't enforce rules or give consequences, at least ai would be immune to whining and could turn the WiFi off.

And changed it for the better for lots of people, probably far more than it changed the World for the worse.

But professionals won't be "relying" on it and nothing else. The mere fact that someone IS a professional means that they have experience and knowledge and have passed professional level examinations on there profession.

I don't "rely" on it when writing technical tax advice reports and dealing with tax enquiries/investigations. I use it as a tool just like years ago I'd sit in the office library with piles of text books, case law books, and acts of parliament - not to learn new stuff, but to check what I think I know, i.e. cross reference a court case to an act of parliament etc.

I ask ChatGPT to cite court case precedents and acts of parliament, and use my 40+ years of experience and knowledge to review what it's telling me as a kind of "sanity check", and then I ask it further questions or clarifications if anything looks odd or is contrary to my own knowledge and understanding.

Can't wait for the brain dead world where nobody can think for themselves. Sounds awesome.

A car is a tool. Did that change the way we live? Yes it did.

Did you not know how to do any of that yourself?

Not really regarding Sat Navs, as most of us still have a map and also still have the alternative on our phone to sense check/traffic check, figure out what to do if you hit a newly built road.
The whole point is that you will use different AIs ask them the same question and then draw your own conclusions. There won’t be one answer surely. They will be competing with each other.

Will it, though. At the moment, with AI, I can research and draft a highly technical tax report in a matter of minutes. Without AI, I'd probably be spending all day on the internet, googling, researching source documents like court cases, acts of parliament etc.

What takes more energy and computer power. Say half an hour via ChatGPT or a full day using google and other online sources?

This article suggests a good - and chilling - way of conceptualising what AI is all about, ie we should think of it in terms of world-building: https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2025/02/deepseek-race-to-god-mode-ai
It draws on a world created by the blinkered and avaricious, and that world will shape ours in turn without our even knowing it. We are all blinkered individuals, the powerful aren't special in that respect, which is why none of us should monopolise the building of worlds in the first place. The AI we can access may seem clumsy and ridiculous for now, but it will push through that stage.
I also generally dislike the idea of steadily eliminating more and more friction from daily life. This goes back to the same old tired debates on technological ethics but my instinct is that we passed a healthy balance a while ago and are heading to really problematic disregulation of human psychology. I wouldn't want developing brains anywhere near it.

We are. It's all working wonderfully until we come up against the challenge of installing nuclear reactors in the playground at your child's school or
in the shopping centre on the edge of your town.

Careful with the legal ones. I teach a bit of law and asked it to come up with some vignettes to illustrate a point in the law. It was consistently wrong.

It will get better no doubt but I wouldnt rely on it for legal info

IReallyLoveItHere · Today 11:02
we could get the ai helper you see in films, on a screen in every room reminding the DC to do everything that you usually do

What happens if the child ignores it (or shouts ‘pushy parent, pushy pushy parent’ to the tune of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when asked to get on with revision, as mine did).