Parenting is hard. Why not let an AI model take over some of your childrearing duties? It may come at the expense of forming lasting emotional bonds with your progeny, but that’s a tradeoff that some AI adherents, evidently, have calculated to be worth it.
OpenAI Sam Altman has bragged about how much he relies on ChatGPT to raise his son, and also thinks it’s a good idea to let an AI-generated podcast replace the “so how’d your day go?” catchup talk a mom or dad has in the car when they pick their kid up from school.
Altman’s comments were ruthlessly — and rightfully — mocked at the time. But his robo-rearing ideas pale in comparison to this latest take from an AI bro.
In a now deleted post on X, Alvin Sng, a software engineer at the startup Factory AI, recalled a conversation he had with his wife when she asked him to read his newborn baby a book. As he explained, he had a better idea that required zero effort on his part.
