Kelly Corrigan

I'm Kelli Corrigan.

I'm a writer, I'm a podcaster, I'm a TED Talker, and I am taking over for Elise Hu this week for a special series on AI and family life.

I guest curated a session about this topic at TED 2025, and I'm here now to share these very special talks with you, along with a lot of behind the scenes recordings and personal insights to shed some light on the process of how these talks came to life.

When I sat down to map out this six part discussion about AI and parenting, I kept coming back in my mind to one of my very best friends.

His name is Andy Lots and he's like a brother to me.

He is my husband's best friend from business school.

He's been a CEO.

He founded a watch company called Nixon.

We've known each other for 25 years.

We've spent every Thanksgiving with him and his wife.

his whole family.

We've gone on family vacations.

And over the course of that, his wife became a very important friend of mine.

And then she died.

I was a part of Liz's memorial.

So her sister gave a talk, I gave a eulogy, and then Andy spoke.

And in the process of that, I started to see that he was learning things that other people needed to know.

In the years since she's died, Andy and I have had conversations, the likes of which I have never had with anyone.

And one of the things he said that always struck me

and I think it's relevant to this conversation about AI and parenting, is that he used to be a dad, but then he became a mom.