Speaking to Fox News Channel, founder of 1000 Hours Outside and mother of five, Ginny Yurich, urged parents to consider the consequences of using AI to assist in raising children.
"When it comes to chatbots and how they interact with our parenting, we have to spend some time thinking about what does that entail? What do we lose alongside of what do we gain, so you think about are we reading less? Are we not calling grandma, are we not calling friends to get the advice that we're now getting from these chatbots? Are we losing sort of the humanity part of trial and error?"
In light of the potential consequences of co-parenting with AI, she encouraged parents to adopt a careful mindset. A little technology can go a long way.
"There are things that we lose when these new technologies come. We have to be better as a society and as individual families of thinking through what might those be and, in the meantime, using those technologies sparingly,” Yurich said.
Yurich also encouraged parents to parent traditionally instead of depending upon what she calls ideologized technology to raise children.
"If we can take a step back, do some of the historically normal practices like hopscotch and getting outside and all of those things that build the competencies of the future that our kids are going to need. These chatbots are not going to help us with our relational skills."
Those relational skills may sometime require a little extra time.
“The technology always comes with an ideology and the ideology here is speed. Is speed always what we're looking for? These parents are stressed out, and part of the reason is because were moving so fast.”
