Jena Friedman

When all of our TED Talks get fed into machine learning algorithms, robots may evolve to understand why someone might say the word abortion in a talk, despite the fact that it could alienate 50 percent of people watching, even though it shouldn't, because it's just health care.

But until they do, these are the things we should be embracing and cultivating.

As artificial intelligence evolves to get better at everything, it might just be our abortion jokes.

Again, I'm just speaking metaphorically.

It's a weird metaphor, but it's uniquely mine.

It might just be our metaphorical abortion jokes that are all we have left.

That said, in the near future, nobody in America will know what the word abortion means because it will be outlawed in all 50 states.

I'm sorry, 51 states, I forgot to include Canada.

I've now turned this TED Talk into a walking example of why TED is probably going to book a robot comedian instead of a human one as soon as they possibly can.

Thank you so much.

I'm Jenna Friedman.

Have a good night.