The modern parenting throuple: Mom, Dad, and Papa Clanker

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Molly and Sean Morse agree that they want their 5-year-old daughter to be ready for the AI future.

By night they're tech-free, telling stories with her, building fantasy worlds and characters and letting her imagination roam.

Then in the morning, she uses an AI image generator like Midourney to visualize a scene from the previous night's bedtime story.

But when it comes to managing the mental load of parenting, the Austin-based couple have different ideas.

Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids , is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school.

Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further.

He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer.

It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order.

The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.

Molly isn't sold on the surveillance state aspect.

"I don't want it to advise me on the moral north of family life," she says.

Sean doesn't see the Omi as different from all the ways he's already tracked across the internet.

He also thinks the AI would help when his daughter's sudden shifts in temperament confuse him and Molly and leave them scrambling.

He sees it like a football team watching game film to learn from their mistakes.