Kelly Corrigan

Let me ask this.

My head is exploding.

This is such a fun project.

If you were to convince the audience that a baby's number one slot is up for grabs.

She's probably most famous for surfacing this idea of alloparents, which means other parents.

So there was this sort of resting belief that infants were completely attached to their mother in a singular way.

And the idea that she introduced is that can't possibly be true.

They'd never have survived.

They're very needy.

They're very expensive little creatures.

It takes them forever to stand up on their own and move into the world.

And because of that, there's no way that there weren't other mothers involved in the rearing of these children, which means that children can attach themselves.

to people who are not their mother.

Sarah is so fun to work with because she wasn't thinking about AI at all.

When we first called her, I think she thought, oh, I'm going to talk about the things I typically talk about.

I mean, she goes around the world giving talks.

Yes.

And it's, you know, what's a human for?

In an AI world, what's a human for?

And so our block is kind of what's a mother for?