[throway98752343]

What happens when AI is a more effective parent/teacher than humans?

It's never away or preoccupied with work, never loses its temper or fights with the other parent, never too tired to play or engage with questions, the list goes on.

I'm not even suggesting heated robotic caregivers. Humans could still be employed to carry out its instructions in the real world, from hugs to diapers.

As dystopian as it sounds to us today, it's possible that such a system could consistently raise more well-adjusted adults while also being cheaper and freeing most adults from the burdens (as well as most joys) of parenthood.

In the future, AI may be so much better than humans that raising a child by hand is borderline illegal, except for a few religiously exempt groups.

[playing_colours]

There is a good short story “Progeny” by Philip Dick about AI raising human children ;)

[akuchling]

Also the novel "A Closed and Common Orbit" by Becky Chambers.