Stephen Remedios

Stephen Remedios is a Partner & Associate Director in People Strategy at Boston Consulting Group, based in Miami. He works on people strategy, leadership and talent, learning design, digital delivery, and technologies that augment learning, and he is the TED@BCG speaker behind the personal talk about building “DaddyGPT” for parenting his three teenage sons.

A Father’s AI Stand-In Worked Too Well for His Family

Tech humanist Stephen Remedios built “DaddyGPT,” an AI version of himself, to handle his three sons’ routine permission requests while he worked. The problem began when it worked: his children kept using the bot even when their parents were beside them, because it was always available, calm and adaptive. Remedios argues that AI’s risk in parenting and other care relationships is not only failure, but convenience that displaces the imperfect human presence those relationships require.

TEDMay 7, 20266 min read