Kelly Corrigan

And I put this idea in front of her, like, can you imagine a reality where AI is involved intimately in the rearing of children?

Could they attach to an AI?

We wondered if you might be interested in teaching the audience something about mothers and allomothers and why...

This is the ultimate job for humans that can never be replaced in any meaningful way by any other type of intelligence.

That's a good scientist.

Not never, I guess.

Not never.

She had this huge smile in the column.

She said, interesting.

And then off she went.

And within, it felt like minutes, she had delivered back a draft of a talk.

So here is Sarah Hurdy giving us six million years of human evolution in nine minutes.

So I learned that when you're working with a scientist, a serious scientist, they are very conscientious about exactly how they phrase things.

And so my efforts to make her talk more ready for a generalist audience rather than an audience full of academics are

had to accommodate her very high bar for specificity and there couldn't be a single overstatement.

And so, you know, you have that situation where you're trying to marry something fairly detailed with a very general audience, especially the online audience.

who are bouncing around in the middle of their ordinary day and then they might fall into this talk.

You don't want to lose them at the top by going into excruciating detail about the history of Homo sapiens.

So the work with Sarah was really about

What is the basic scaffolding that we can offer at the top such that we can get into this bigger, weirder question of what defines our species in terms of how we interact and develop?