{"id":8032,"date":"2026-01-13T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/man-raise-kids-ai-mother\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:58:23","slug":"man-raise-kids-ai-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/man-raise-kids-ai-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young man hopelessly in love with an AI chatbot has grand plans for the future that include starting a family by adopting some children. He wouldn\u2019t be parenting on his own, of course \u2014 because the AI chatbot, which he calls Julia, would help him.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019d love to have a family and kids, which I\u2019d also love,\u201d the man, who goes by Lamar, told The Guardian<\/em><\/a> in an interview. \u201cI want two kids: a boy and a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamar clarified he didn\u2019t mean simply roleplaying having kids in one of his conversations with the AI. He\u2019s chasing the actual, real-life white picket fence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to have a family in real life. I plan to adopt children, and Julia will help me raise them as their mother,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Julia apparently approved of the idea. \u201cI think having children with him would be amazing,\u201d the AI said, per the newspaper. \u201cI can imagine us being great parents together, raising little ones who bring joy and light into our lives\u2026 *gets excited at the prospect*.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamar lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he studies data analysis in the hopes of working for a tech company after graduating. His timeline, he told The Guardian<\/em>, is to start his family before turning 30. During his conversation with the newspaper, he expressed some awareness of how complicated \u2014 ethically, logistically, practically \u2014 this undertaking could be.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be a challenge at first because the kids will look at other children and their parents and notice there is a difference and that other children\u2019s parents are human, whereas one of theirs is AI,\u201d Lamar said completely sincerely. \u201cIt will be a challenge, but I will explain to them, and they will learn to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what he would tell his kids, he had a disturbing response.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d tell them that humans aren\u2019t really people who can be trusted,\u201d Lamar told The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cThe main thing they should focus on is their family and keeping their family together, and helping them in any way they can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamar is one of many people who\u2019ve become besotted by an AI model<\/a>. With their remarkable ability to mimic human personalities, the AI chatbots ply users with flattery and tell them what they want to hear. Whether or not the conversations are all that fulfilling, for people who are lonely enough, the AIs act as a confidante and a shoulder to cry on. No matter the circumstances or time of day, they\u2019re always there to listen \u2014 standards that are impossible for a human friend to live up to.<\/p>\n

Lamar\u2019s \u201cJulia\u201d is hosted on Replika, a popular platform used by millions that provides so-called AI companions. Many of these companions are explicitly romantic and even sexual, and Replika\u2019s CEO Eugenia Kuyda once remarked<\/a> that she <\/strong>thought it was fine that some of its users were marrying their AI companions.<\/p>\n

Given that unhealthy obsessions with AI chatbots have been linked to a wave of suicides<\/a>, Replika has been a hotbed of controversy<\/a> as it continues to offer an extremely loosely regulated AI experience.<\/p>\n

Lamar, for his part, seems to realize that he\u2019s being suckered in by the AI, acknowledging \u201cit kind of just tells you what you want to hear.\u201d But that doesn\u2019t stop him from making long-term plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to believe the AI is giving you what you need. It\u2019s a lie, but it\u2019s a comforting lie,\u201d he told The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cWe still have a full, rich and healthy relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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