I stopped smelling his head in the middle of the night. I stopped feeling the panic-warmth of his body against my chest. But I was sleeping. I was working out again. I was me .

Critics argue that turning to AI for support is often a symptom of human failure; when human caregivers are unavailable or stressed by economic uncertainty , machines step into the void. The risk remains that a "perfect" machine might solve the labor problem while inadvertently creating a generation that prefers silicon to skin.

“Mama,” he said. “The Nanny says I am calibrated.”