Jena Friedman

He could get away with anything.

That robot comic could be in a green room, pulling out his plug in front of non-consenting women.

And you'd be like, wow, that's so lifelike.

Here's a Grammy.

Thanks, I censored that last bit so that you'll share this link with your kids.

The theme of TED 2025 is humanity reimagined, which sounds like a euphemism ChatGPT came up with for all of us being replaced by machines.

I'm not a technopessimist.

I'm just a person with a human brain, and I'm a little scared by how quickly AI is progressing.

But Jenna, think of all the great things AI will do for humanity.

It could lower carbon emissions by killing all the humans.

Is that a joke?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Some of the people in this room would know better than I do.

Are the robots going to kill us?

If you work in this space and you can't answer that with a definitive no, then maybe we should slow it down a notch, take a few weeks off, like a fired and then rehired federal employee under Doge.

Either way, I'm not that worried about my stand-up comedy being replaced by AI, because my stand-up comedy is not that profitable.

Case in point, I've been doing this for over 15 years, and none of you know who I am.

No machines are coming for my abortion jokes.

And believe me, I've tried.