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 behind-the-scenes recordings and personal insights that shed light on the process of bringing them to life.

Sarah Blaffer Hurdy is such a delight.

She's almost 80 years old.

She takes no guff from nobody.

And she is a true expert in her field.

She's an American anthropologist and primatologist.

She's made huge contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

She won a Guggenheim.

She went to Harvard, blah, blah, blah.

But she really, really understands evolution and the way mothers and fathers have over time been understood, misunderstood, and re-understood.

So when I first started talking about this fundamental question, in a modern world, in an AI world, what is a parent for?

I knew that we needed somebody who could give us the broadest possible view, you know, like the six million year look at us as a species and our evolution and the way that we have typically raised children.

And there's something about Sarah, really.

She has such a twinkle in her eye.

She's such a happy girl.

academic.

This is what she was born to do, was take on really big, weird questions like this.

Okay.