Tired US parents increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for help with daily family life

Parents in the United States who are worn out by the demands of raising children are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools for help, even though concerns about the risks of these tools continue to grow. The trend is described by the Latvian magazine Ir, drawing on a report from The New York Times.

A library book and a rolling schedule

One evening, five-year-old Fics came home from school upset. He had not been able to borrow the book he wanted from the library because he had not yet returned the previous one. According to his mother, 34-year-old pediatric resident Liza Green of Kansas City, return deadlines change every week on a rolling schedule. Fics had been given that schedule at kindergarten, but the family had not noticed it.

To solve the problem, Liza tracked down the schedule, photographed it and uploaded it to an artificial intelligence app called Ollie. She now receives a text message reminding her to send her son to school with a library book before its due date.

Green says she had reached the point of feeling that she was juggling glass balls and could no longer afford to make mistakes. This episode, she said, was the last straw.

Other examples

Another American, Tara Jukava, has built a range of solutions for her household needs using the AI assistants Claude and ChatGPT.