Fading Grandpa: How Artificial Intelligence Is Replacing Our Elders and Raising Children

When you are young you have ideas, eagerness and energy to make change, but you have no experience. Where can you get the guidance? The elders of the community and from your grandparents have always been the sounding board for our grand plans. But what happens when we are no longer being guided by our blood? What happens when a machine gives context and steers our collective youthful enthusiasm. The family unit has been under attack and slated for dissection and dismantling. Why? Because if you want a complacent and compliant consumerist working class, the earlier children can be indoctrinated the better, and an intact family prevents this. The title Grandpa is a bestowed on the family keeper of the wisdom, of conflicts, of preservation of wealth and protector of the bloodline. He has been all but de-throned and tossed aside, and it has happened in less than a decade. While we are still reeling from the single parent home, one more of the key pillars of familial foundation has been undermined. Someone else is raising your children during the day, during the night and during the holidays. Will our children even know how to be grandparents of their own progeny when they never had a human example? Grandparenting is being outsourced and it is not likely ever coming back.