{
  "id": 17684,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/ai-optimized-parenting",
  "title": "Parenting is hard. Should we let AI do it for us? | Dave Schilling",
  "summary": "Tech companies offer eye-movement trackers, personalized podcasts and ‘optimized nap predictions’. Who actually needs this? What job in our world is less lucrative than being a parent? A Hollywood internship? Volunteering at a soup kitchen? Professional writer? Parenting is the only job you have to pay money to do. Lots of money . Lodging, clothes, food, school, Pokémon cards – it really adds up. And it’s getting worse. According to the tech industry, I have to strap my drooling offspring to a c",
  "authors": "Dave Schilling",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T11:00:47.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17684",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/ai-optimized-parenting",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}