I use AI at home because I'm a working mom. It saves me 10 hours a week, and I'm tired of the backlash.

• Cara Katz is a 36-year-old working mom to a toddler.
• She has been using AI at work for at least six years.
• She said people shouldn’t judge moms who use AI — they aren’t the ones to blame for the ethical concerns around it.

I also fed it my daughter’s periphery schedules — like library events for the month — and trained it on her preferences. Every week, it sources events that she would be interested in, and puts them into the calendar.

It sends our babysitters’ recommended times, based on their previous work-time preferences, and asks them to agree to the date and time provided to have our daughter.

We then publish the schedule on Netlify, press “deploy,” and it creates a password-protected website that caregivers can view. If there is any chance, I enter that change, and it automatically updates and emails everyone a link leading us back to the website.

These days, I spend five minutes here and there on scheduling.

It also plans my shopping list

AI does all of my grocery planning. It runs a full inventory of my pantry to know what we already have, knows all of our preferences, knows my daughter and husband are celiac, and even knows my husband’s blood results. It uses all of this information to design a shopping list and meal plan.

I connect Claude to DoorDash and Uber Eats to get our groceries delivered. You can set it up so that this happens automatically, but I like to have a look at the list before I pay.

I followed my daughter’s developmental milestones with AI

I think moms get freaked out by developmental milestones — we know milestones exist, but aren’t taught that there is a range within these milestones.

When my daughter was a baby, I built a Claude project that researched which milestones she should be hitting. I asked for an updated list of activities we could do each week to help her achieve her developmental milestones. We printed it out and ticked off the activities.

When we went to the pediatrician for a check-up, we knew where she was developmentally before we even walked through the door. We could then have empowered conversations with the doctor.

I get more time with my kid

I love going back to my mom communities after being pelted with strong opinions from people who say that hate AI. We are buying back time with our kids using AI. My mental workload has lightened.

It’s hard for me to take people who are angry about AI seriously. It is easy to be theoretically morally angry.

It is quite different to sit across from a single mom, stay-at-home mom, or a working mom who struggles to pay bills, or spend time with their family, and tell her not to use AI because it probably uses less water than big organizations do.