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

[Ellis12]

I’ve been experimenting with AI tools recently (like ChatGPT and others), and it’s honestly been a game-changer for managing household stuff, helping with schoolwork, meal plans, even emotional support during tough days.

But it got me thinking are we at the start of something huge? Will AI end up changing how we raise our children, do our jobs, and even build relationships? AIBU to feel both excited and a bit nervous about how fast it's all happening?

Curious what others think, especially parents juggling a million things!

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

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.

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

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

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?

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’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.

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 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!

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".

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

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

It’s the start…

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!😂

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.

I understand that. But at least you’re not using it to create fake dolls of yourself or steal artists’ work!

Agree with this.

I've never used AI and how no idea how to do so.

I can live my life without it so will continue to do so.

It's like having an "Alexa" or similar. I have one built in to my TV but have never used it, yet some younger friends claim they can't live without it.

What would be great is if AI could police DCs screen use perfectly!
So DC reading on a kindle and actually clicking the unknown word and learning about its etymology, good thing.
My cousin’s dyslexic kid listening to stories instead of reading them and asking about unknown words, great thing.
DS spending hours playing chess against a machine, good thing.

We need AI to step up and make sure those pesky teens only do good screen use and stop watching mindless sh.. on YouTube/insta etc. and those students stop plagiarism and use different forms of AI to critically assess all information and then come up with their own.

I have a relative who uses AI LLM to write her messages to her ex DH about co parenting their children.

It’s a tricky, emotionally complex relationship with children in the mix, and he is very manipulative.

Her ChatGPT account knows the full history of their relationship as well as current challenges - it provides her with well written WhatsApp messages and also feeds her real time replies, as well as giving her coaching and counselling on how to handle these difficult conversations and emotions, with him and with their children. All from the mobile phone in her hand.

They integrate AI into their compression algorithm and it ends up being so powerful that it cracks every encryption code ever made. So no data would be safe, no privacy, no bank accounts etc.

what do we do then?

We need AI to step up and make sure those pesky teens only do good screen use and stop watching mindless sh.. on YouTube/insta etc.

That would be great @Araminta1003 but tech companies probably want them locked in for revenue purposes.

I think AI will revolutionise things but only in conjunction with advances in robotics. Neither AI nor robotics are at a standard where they can be combined into a realistic humanoid that looks and acts like a real person, but never making an error or getting tired, but it will happen eventually (if the world isn't destroyed first).

When anyone can afford a robot helper that looks and feels like a real person, they will be put to use in doing the jobs that real people don't want to do for low/no pay - looking after children, teaching, looking after the elderly.

There may even become a point where humans make themselves obsolete. A lot of relationships will no longer be necessary or beneficial - you won't need to find an acceptable partner because you will be able to buy the perfect one who gladly submits to your every whim. You won't need the stress or expense of having children when you can buy a robot version that looks, behaves and grows up like a real child.

These things will take decades of course, it's not going to happen overnight. Without the advances in robotics though AI's impact will be limited within the home, other than the fact many more people will be unemployed so most families will be at or below the poverty line.

Not for their own kids @vinavine - they will be using AI to teach their kids Mandarin and the piano perfectly etc. It is all doable. My DC are definitely smarter due to screen use and infinite amounts of information available to them. What it is costing them is social skills/real life experiences and physical experiences instead, but not smarts. It is different socialising in person and picking up people’s body language and doing loads of team sports. We are really having to work at the latter and being outside. Because the screens are such a pull.

Not AI related but more of a tech/progression point. I find it so annoying when things go backwards (if that's the right word. Netflix used to be cheap, with no adverts and good content, it was fresh and new. Now you pay and get adverts depending on your package and whilst there is a lot of quantity I'm not sure re quality.