{"slug": "sam-altman-says-a-cool-use-case-for-chatgpt-is-a-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-the", "title": "Sam Altman says a ‘cool use case’ for ChatGPT is a daily AI podcast about your kids. The replies were brutal", "summary": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested on X that a cool use case for ChatGPT Work is to connect family calendars and generate a daily AI podcast about children's activities, drawing harsh criticism from users who called it a poor substitute for human connection. The backlash comes as AI family management apps like Ollie, Cozi, and Ava, and smart calendars like Skylight and Cozyla, aim to monetize relief from domestic admin, with the AI childcare and parenting market projected to reach nearly $42 billion by 2035.", "body_md": "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.\n\nOn Friday, Altman posted on X that “a cool use case” for the company’s [ChatGPT Work agent](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/sam-altman-is-still-making-the-case-for-parenting-via-chatgpt/) 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.\n\n**He didn’t exactly get ratioed…** but several snarky replies got way more likes than [the original post](https://x.com/sama/status/2083221585792762171). One of the more modulated criticisms said: “using AI in place of real human connection is the worst possible use case for it.”\n\n## But AI execs want busy parents’ bucks\n\nAnd 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”:\n\n- AI-enabled family support apps include Ollie, Cozi, and Ava, which can pull data from emails and calendars to send family text messages about important daily activities, remember birthdays, manage shareable lists, and flag deadlines for registration and bills.\n- AI-enhanced smart calendars, like Skylight and Cozyla, create shared visuals for all family members to keep them on track, and can also serve as reward trackers and photo albums.\n\nAllison Stern, the founder of a VC firm focused on mothers as consumers, recently wrote for Fortune that moms “[need outcomes, not interfaces](https://fortune.com/2026/06/03/ai-startups-mothers-consumer-market-venture-capital/).” When AI companies can really solve problems, she argues, they gain entrée into the market of 85 million American moms.\n\n**Zoom out: **Stern noted that “mothers make 85% of household purchases and control roughly $2.4 trillion in annual consumer spending in the United States.” A recent market analysis for AI in childcare and parenting predicted that the segment would be worth almost $42 billion by 2035.—*HVL*\n\n*This report was originally published by *\n\n[Morning Brew](https://www.morningbrew.com/).\n\n**Subscribe to Fortune Gulf Brief**. Every Tuesday, this new newsletter delivers clear-eyed, authoritative intelligence on the deals, decisions, policies, and power shifts shaping one of the world’s most consequential regions, written for the people who need to act on it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-says-a-cool-use-case-for-chatgpt-is-a-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-the", "canonical_source": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/03/sam-altman-use-case-for-chatgpt-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-kids-backlash/", "published_at": "2026-08-03 11:43:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 12:26:15.361737+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "ChatGPT Work", "Ollie", "Cozi", "Ava", "Skylight", "Cozyla"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-says-a-cool-use-case-for-chatgpt-is-a-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-the", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-says-a-cool-use-case-for-chatgpt-is-a-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-the.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-says-a-cool-use-case-for-chatgpt-is-a-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-the.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sam-altman-says-a-cool-use-case-for-chatgpt-is-a-daily-ai-podcast-about-your-the.jsonld"}}