Kelly Corrigan

and still doing it.

So, you know, obviously I, like everyone else, am reading about AI.

Almost every day, an article or two comes up in any number of my feeds or newsletters about some application or advancement or fundraising round.

And I must say, at the risk of getting myself into a little trouble here,

I am not always convinced that the people who are running these AI development companies are great at what I think is the most important thing, which is human connection.

I think they might be great at engineering, and they might be great at raising money, and they might be great at using very complicated tools to create products that could be incredibly profitable.

But that does not mean they understand what connects people to other people in meaningful ways.

And if you don't understand that and you are making the thing that's going to define the world, I am scared.

I would much rather have people who are super good at relationships and love be in charge of some of this stuff.

If you want to make rockets, sure.

If you want to get involved in the parent-child relationship and the development of another generation, I want you to be a proven expert in human relationships, not engineering.

And that's what I was thinking about as Andy finished his talk on stage.

You know what I mean?

The question that's still hanging around for me after Andy's talk has been released is, will they listen?

Will they make sure that the N through Z parents, the people like Liz, who knew the things that Liz knew, will the designers and the developers and the profiteers listen?

Will they integrate that point of view, that softest point of view, that softest, most well-earned point of view of

about what families need.

I suspected in picking Andy and imagining him on stage that certain people would listen to what he was saying because they were coming from a guy like Andy.

And you know, it's so funny.

We've been dearest, dearest friends for, I don't know, almost 30 years now.