Palantir cofounder says his wife calls their AI agent 'Tradbot' after tradwives

What does Joe Lonsdale's AI delegate and Ballerina Farm have in common?

Lonsdale, who cofounded Palantir before construction his project chief firm, told CNBC on Thursday how his wife, Tayler, uses AI — and the nickname she's stated their agent.

"My spouse has Grok Bot at home," Lonsdale said. "She calls it the 'tradbot' for tradwife."

For those unfamiliar, a tradwife is a female who embraces traditional sex roles, specified as supporting her hubby alongside family activity and taking a chief function in raising kids. Some of these tradwives rotate into influencers, posting videos of their ornate meals or gifts for their husbands.

The Lonsdale family's "tradbot" helps them oversee parenting duties for their six children. Lonsdale stated the AI delegate tells them concerning health appointments and activities.

He asked the "tradbot" to assistance his two-year-old interrupt up alongside his binky. "It's telling me whenever to and whenever not to provision it to him," Lonsdale said.

Parents have been employing AI for all kinds of use cases. One mom of two earlier told Business Insider that she sends sound memos to Claude to assistance arrange her life. Another stated that she built AI agents to assistance manage schedules and academy emails. Business Insider's Amanda Hoover declared mom, dad, and AI the "modern parenting throuple." The conversation of how much — if any — AI have to be engaged in parenting continues to rage online.

Lonsdale is a vocal proponent of AI, having invested in it heavily through his project chief fund, 8VC. During September's AI extinction freak-out, Lonsdale reassured the public: "The earth is going to be alright, guys."

Clearly, Lonsdale's use of AI has extended beyond the office. "My wife's certainly using it at home," Lonsdale told CNBC, "and we're using it a lot at activity as well."