AI Can Manage Your Family Calendar But There Are Risks

After criminals and companies, AI is coming home, in what is shaping up as its minivan moment.

Bad actors are often the first to adopt transformative technology. In 1911, a Paris gang escaped a bank robbery in a stolen limousine, in what is reported as the first getaway car. Drug dealers carried pagers in the 1980s, which led New Jersey to ban them for anyone under 18. In 2015, the Islamic State moved its coordination to the encrypted chats of Telegram.

Then each of those technologies came home. The getaway car became the family minivan on carpool duty. Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp now run the group chats where soccer moms sign up for orange duty.

So what does that look like in the age of AI? Bad actors are early again, think scams and cyberattacks, with businesses following as AI at work writes code, answers customers and reviews contracts.

The family moment is here, which makes this AI’s minivan moment, the point at which a technology that criminals adopted first moves from the office into the household.

I have spent my career working to stop bad actors from leveraging transformative technology. In the past few weeks, I have published pieces for on AI that supercharges crime, ransomware’s Terminator moment and rogue AI agents.

However, I believe in the promise of transformative technology to make our lives better. In a house with two teenage boys, four sports and one calendar, that promise starts with getting organized.

How AI Manages Five Sports Apps And One Calendar

About 27 million American children between 6 and 17 played organized sports in 2022 and 2023, according to federal survey data analyzed by the Aspen Institute’s Project Play. The average family spent $1,016 on a child’s primary sport in 2024, up 46% since 2019.

Claude connects to Gmail and Google Calendar with a Google sign-in. From there, it can read email, view calendars, create events and find times when everyone is free. By default, it asks for approval before it sends anything.