AI Won’t Replace Care—But It Might Replace Some Stress
People ask whether AI will replace child care. The answer is simple: it won’t. Care is human, relational, embodied work.
AI’s real potential is reducing the structural friction that wears people down:
- repetitive emails
- lost documents
- misaligned data
- conflicting guidance
- administrative overwhelm
If AI can remove 20–30% of the stress that families and providers face—not the care, but the confusion—we expand everyone’s capacity for connection.
AI can’t hold a child.
But it can hold a system together a little better.