AI apps can automate your home life, and it's more cool than scary
Sep 7, 2024

Imagine a family organizing app, powered partly by artificial intelligence, that can anticipate and execute your every need at home.
It plans meals on your request, then makes a shopping list to use. You can tell it to create a to-do list for your child's birthday list, and it responds with tasks like sending invitations, buying decorations, and pre-ordering pizza; each task can be assigned deadlines and delegated to a partner or spouse within the app. It can receive emails you send it about school and sporting events and effortlessly schedule them on your calendar.
In fact, these are all things you can do on one or more of the family organizing apps and platforms Jam, Maple, and Ohai.ai, which use AI in an effort to automate different aspects of home life.
These services offer versions of an AI administrative assistant designed to make your home life run smoothly, specifically by taking the busy work out of scheduling and planning, which often falls on women to perform.
In two-person households where one parent does most of this relentless work, these digital organizers have the potential to significantly ease their mental load. After all, the partner who claims ignorance, accurately or not, has little excuse when a family organizing app brings them directly into the scheduling and planning trenches.
If that kind of support sounds too good to turn down, especially in the thick of back-to-school season, here's what you should know about choosing and using one of these services.
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