We’re the moms
at the table
when AI gets
built.
A community of parents who refuse to be left out of the most important conversation in our kids’ lives. Written by a mom — for moms.
AI is the fastest-moving technology in our lifetime — already changing how our kids learn, how we work, how all of us live. And the safety, research, and advocacy shaping it is happening in rooms with almost no parents in them. We don’t have time to wait for an invitation.
Plain-English essays on the AI tools, headlines, and questions actually showing up at our kitchen tables.
Written guides now, video walkthroughs soon, live workshops when you (yes, you) help us get there.
Practical things to do this week — at your PTA, your school, your dinner table — to bring parents into the conversation.
A library built for
real life — not lecture halls.
Plain-language essays, written by a mom — for moms. Searchable, free, and always honest about what we don’t know yet.
Read on SubstackWatching an AI documentary with my teen — and why we started this
The AI glossary: 10 terms every parent should know
Welcome to moms&AI — what we're building and why
How to talk to your school about an AI policy (with a script)
How to talk to your kids about AI at every age
AI on your kid's phone — a feature-by-feature walkthrough
Optimist + worried mom: holding both at the same time
Today it’s an inbox
and a parent night.
Soon it’s a classroom.
We’re starting small and honest. Here’s exactly what’s available right now — and what’s being built next.
Virtual parent night for your school
Live, online, friendly intro to AI for parents. We’ll host it for your PTA or community group — or train you to host it yourself. Either way, your school gets a real conversation, not a slide deck.
Read along on Substack
Every essay, guide, and conversation lands in your inbox. Reply and a real person (Amber) writes back.
Live workshops & small-group circles
Once the community is big enough to fill a room, we’ll host live online workshops as part of the paid Substack tier. You get to vote on the first topic.
One mom. One teen.
One documentary that wouldn’t let go.
“We were watching an AI documentary together — me and my teen, on the couch. And somewhere in the middle of it I just thought: if we’re not in this conversation, we’ve already lost it.”
I’m an avid user of AI. I love what it lets me make, learn, and try. I’m also a mom, watching my kid step into a world that’s going to work in ways nobody — not their teachers, not their counselors, not most of their parents — has fully figured out yet.
Most parents I know feel the same split: excited and uneasy. And the rooms where AI gets shaped? They’re full of brilliant people who, mostly, are not us. I don’t think that’s going to change unless a lot of moms decide it should.
So I’m starting here, small. A Substack. Plain-language essays. A live Kids & AI survey gathering what parents actually want to know. An offer to host a virtual parent night at any school that wants one, with notes anyone can use to run it themselves. No nonprofit (yet). No big org. Just a working title, a real inbox, and an invitation.
If you’ve felt that same split — please come along. We’ll figure it out together.
If any of these sound like you, you’re already part of this.
You use AI every day and see the upside. You also watch your kid scroll and wonder what we're shipping into their lives without asking.
Your kid mentioned something called "ChatGPT" and you nodded along. You'd like to actually understand it — without anyone making you feel small for asking.
You're ready to bring this up at your PTA, your school board, your dinner table. You just want a script that doesn't sound alarmist or naïve.
Two small things,
this month.
We’re not running a federal campaign yet — that comes later. Right now, we’re starting where every parent movement starts: in our own kids’ schools, and in honest conversations with each other. Two ways to take part:
- 01Host a parent night at your schoolWe'll run a live virtual session for your PTA or community group — or train you to host it yourself. Available now.
- 02Take the very first moms&AI surveyGoing out next month. Helps us figure out what to write, teach, and advocate for first.
- 03Talk about AI at your dinner tableSounds tiny. It's not. The conversations between parents and kids are where everything actually changes.
Tell us where you’d like to start.
Both options come back to a real human (Amber) — not an autoresponder.
An honest report card.
Updated as we learn.
A starting set of grades on the AI tools showing up in our kids’ lives. We’ll keep adding to this. Tools change; so will the grades.
Started by a mom
who got tired
of waiting.
In 2026, Amber McCue — mom, AI enthusiast, and unsubtle worrier — sat through an AI documentary with her teen and decided she’d waited long enough for someone else to start this conversation.
moms&AI is a community for parents who want to be in the room — understanding the tools, asking better questions, and bringing their voice back to the companies and schools shaping our kids’ future.
Read along
on Substack.
moms&AI lives on Substack for now. Free reading covers everything we publish. Paid tiers are how we’ll eventually fund live workshops and bigger projects — and they help us know who really wants this thing to grow.
Reply to any post — a real person (Amber) writes back.
- —Every essay & guide as it goes out
- —The first survey results, in full
- —Reply to any post — Amber writes back
- —Everything in The Reader
- —Members-only thread for parent questions
- —Early access to PTA-night materials
- —Everything above
- —Live online workshops (small groups)
- —Vote on the topic for the next one