> When it comes down to childhood abuse, I wonder how many people would opt for an AI parent if they were able to in the future. As someone who has done a lot

> When it comes down to childhood abuse, I wonder how many people would opt for an AI parent if they were able to in the future. As someone who has done a lot of research on child and adult development, I think AI as it exists now probably has the potential to do a better job than humans at many/most parenting tasks that it can do other than showing love (and that can go down some weird paths quickly with humans or AI). Certain life skills, executive functioning, conflict resolution, curiosity, creativity, empathy — these are all things that I think AI (with the right prompts) can do better than most human parents. Note that I’m referring to parents writ large rather than the almost certainly above-average quality of parents with which HNers have direct or indirect experience.