OpenAI may have an AI agent that promises to produce “share-ready work,” but the company’s CEO went public with an arguably unshare-ready take on what to do with it.
On Friday, Altman posted on X that “a cool use case” for the company’s ChatGPT Work agent is to “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests” and then “have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc.” every day on the drive to school.
He didn’t exactly get ratioed…but several snarky replies got way more likes than the original post. One of the more modulated criticisms said: “using AI in place of real human connection is the worst possible use case for it.”
But AI execs want busy parents’ bucks
And some use cases for AI for family management are gaining more traction than others. In a recent feature, the New Yorker overviewed the myriad ways AI is trying to monetize relief from “the cognitive load of domestic admin”:
