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

You won't be able to avoid it though.

I'm convinced it's going to decide that we are the problem and we'll be exterminated, no bad thing for planet earth it has to be said

Parents definitely control access to the internet and therefore to chatgpt. Do you have any idea how many predators are lurking on the internet ready to take advantage of children? Why on earth would you give them free access??

As to your second point, it's true that we have no clue what the job market will be like and so can't properly prepare our kids. However, the usual skills of resilience, social interaction, healthy living, problem solving and so on will still be useful even if humans end up living on Mars.

It’s dreadful for the environment so I avoid it at all costs. Plus dumbing down!

@Chiseltip agree and as an expert on this I heard on radio said " no intelligent species allows itself to be ruled by a less intelligent species,".
It will definitely affect teaching because it will also be able to deliver bespoke content according to the specific needs of the class.

Because your child will have access to infinite knowledge without any possibility of parents being able to control access.

Also you won't be able to adequately prepare them for adult life because you won't know what that life will look like.

People will always be doing the manual jobs though they are irreplaceable with AI.

Yes @Ellis12 I agree. It will change everything.

Yes it will OP.

Imagine a world where humans, even the most brilliant, talented and experienced individuals, are the least intelligent minds in the room. A world where knowledge has no value, because infinite knowledge is available, immediately. A world where virtually every electronic device is more intelligent than we are.

There may not even be any schools as we know them because knowledge will no longer be necessary to remember. Your children's lives will change, the old way of school, college, job, will no longer be appropriate. Even jobs may no longer be needed in the sense that we understand.

AGI, that is the state where a computer is able to think, reason and communicate as we do, is likely less than a decade away. We have no word in our language for how disruptive this technology will be. And no idea of the consequences.

Take a look at Boston Dynamics current android on YouTube, consider Atlas or Tesla Bot, now imagine them with an AGI operating system. This will happen sometime around 2030. We will then have limitless, salary free, 247 capable human replacments. What use will people be then in terms of employment. This isn't some far fetched conspiracy theory. This is real, it's happening, it WILL happen.

Think of the invention of the airplane. The right brothers first flight was in 1903, by 1916, we had dog fights in fighter planes over the trenches of WW1. In terms of aviation, A.I is at the Biplane stage. But thr jet fighter and Concorde are only five years away.

I was wondering if it might be the death knell to the internet. I used to watch videos of cute otters. Now they're probably ai. So no more otter videos for me. Most social media posts are probably ai too. The info on websites will be ai. What is the point of the internet at that stage?

I have been using chatgpt lately for things like meal plans, calendars, planners, viewing DIY changes to the house. I find it better than Google when researching.

Other than meal planning and calenders, I'm not sure how it will help me with parenting.

I don’t think I’ve ever used AI, wouldn’t know how to.

I don’t understand how it will change “parenting”?

Aside from meal plans maybe, which I find of no use anyway, how does AI help with the things you mention?

I don't think anyone knows how society will be changed. Technology tends to have unexpected consequences.

How did the invention of the internet and of mobile phones/tablets change parenting? It has changed us in many ways but not in ways anyone predicted

I'm a bit confused by what you mean by ai will change how we raise our children.

I do my best to be present with my kids. I play with them, look after them, set boundaries for them etc, just like millions of other parents. I don't see what role ai has to play?

I can see scheduling and meal planning (though to be honest cooking isn't hard once you know how and have built up your favorite recipes) but what other jobs are you going to hand over to ai?

You mention emotional support. My first reaction to that is to think: the day I need an ai to give my child emotional support is the day I've failed as a mother.

Ai will change how we work, maybe how we find love etc but I really hope it doesn't change how people parent. Children need human connection to thrive.

I don't think so. Whilst parents still have to persuade their kids to get up, encourage them to spoon cereal into their mouth, chivvy them to get dressed, check they've cleaned their teeth or washed behind their ears, put the right uniform on, potty trained them, changed nappies, cuddled them, checked them for nits, comforted them after they've tripped over, calmed them before exams, talked them through friendship woes, I think they won't be replaced anytime soon! Same with many jobs.

Yes, you can use AI for meal planning etc though and it might be helpful.