The Unexpected Rise of AI in Human Conception

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that was released in 2022, has seemingly seeped into every area of human life… Now, ChatGPT is being utilized for the most basic of human functions: conception…

— from “ChatGPT Is Helping Women Get Pregnant” by Fortesa Latifi, in Rolling Stone, July 9, 2025

A Far Cry From the Old Days

My ex-wife Darlene got pregnant with each of our three kids the old fashioned way. As I recall, she didn’t even glance at her phone.

Not that using your phone to get pregnant was a thing, back then. I think we were still using a land line. It’s pretty much impossible to get pregnant using a land line.

But times have changed. Obviously.

A lot of us have been worried, lately, that AI was going to take our jobs, and then do them better than we were ever able to do.

We now know, those worries are well founded.

Now, ChatGPT has seeped into every area of human life. Including procreation. Emphasis on the word “seeped”.

Tracing the Roots of Our AI Overlords

I partly blame NASA. When the engineers and scientists got the bright idea of sending manned and unmanned probes to the moon and distant planets, they understood that they needed to make quick decisions and adjustments — faster than a human could make them — to keep the probes and spaceships on track, and this required reliable computers small enough to fit inside a spaceship.

Actually, I should be blaming the engineers and scientists in Russia, because they were doing this stuff even before NASA came along..

And then I blame the auto manufacturers, for creating the computer-guided robots, and laying off their assembly line employees.

These seemingly small steps were actually leading us off the edge of a cliff.

First They Took Our Jobs

The automation of human life continues. Practically every type of worker is seeing their job threatened. Accountants, computer programmers, artists, actors, journalists, restaurant workers, taxi drivers, teachers… the list is endless.

And now it’s come to this. AI is getting women pregnant.

Apparently, any woman of childbearing age, who owns a phone with the ChatGPT app, can get pregnant. And practically all women have phones.

That being said, I don’t think most women who own a phone necessarily want to get pregnant. At least, that’s the impression I’ve gotten from the dating apps I’ve subscribed to.

Now They're Taking Over Conception

But AI is smarter than me. When AI joins a dating website, it already knows every pick-up line that’s ever been successfully used to weasel your way into a woman’s heart — and then, into her bedroom. The AI has, of course, read all the famous books about romance and seduction — Don Juan, Lolita, The Bridges of Madison County, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Dangerous Liaisons…

AI can read a romance novel in like 5 seconds, and remember every word. It typically takes me a week to read a novel, and I’ve forgotten the whole thing by the following week. I might remember one pick-up line, if I’m lucky.

But this whole thing is so new. We don’t yet know what a baby looks like, if the woman got pregnant by AI.

I suppose the woman can simply say, “ChatGPT, I want the baby to look like Harry Styles”… and it would.

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Louis Cannon

Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.