Kelly Corrigan

And then how might that change and create like a new species?

So for all of you who weren't there, I want you to know that the audience gasped.

when she showed this slide of a little baby making eye contact with a mom bot.

Because right before that, she had set up this very basic truth, which is babies will respond to whomever responds to them, whether that person or that thing is man or machine.

Couldn't it be that three speakers later, the AI guy would say, right, and if it's up for grabs, if it's not written in the code of our beings, then the number one slot could be taken by MomBot.

Because the non-bearer has no perspective.

What if you were to create the mom bot?

Someone who does know about love and human emotion.

What if someone just like you would be, it would be amenable to the job.

The other huge takeaway I had from Sarah is that, of course, once you settle into her talk, you're thinking we're always changing.

We're always moving into a slightly different version of our species.

And so it helps to know what is the defining feature.

And in Sarah's telling, it's being other regarding.

It's the only way that we could ever survive.

But to my ear, other regarding sounded kind of beautiful and special and something that we should be preserving.

When I listen to you, the thing I feel lifted by is that this other regardingness is, to me, deeply encouraging.

I mean, this is a talk to linger on that.

It's as simple as responsiveness, that that's what the connection, the attachment is based on is who is responding to this baby.

That is really a stop and stare moment for me.

Like we have to look at that squarely, accept the fact of it and operate accordingly.