Kelly Corrigan

It can take care of, quote unquote, millions of people at the same time.

But people, people have to choose where to spend their limited time, where to invest their limited energy.

People have to sacrifice for each other.

That's part of how we know someone loves us, is they choose us over someone else.

They choose us over work, over play.

They pick us.

And it comes out in these eulogies that we play on Kelly Corrigan Wonders.

It comes out because people talk about that time their special person dropped everything to be with them in their moment of need.

That is a feature of what love feels like.

And to me, a takeaway from this work with Ted and everything you've heard this past week is that that cannot be replicated by AI because AI doesn't have limitations and AI doesn't die, at least not in the human sense.

And you can walk away from AI.

You can be rude to AI.

You can fail AI.

And theoretically, it will show up again the next day, chipper and ready to receive you.

So there are no stakes like there are in a human relationship where often you can't walk away.

And it's just- Right, right.

And it's like perfecting away.

At the beginning of the week, I shared my TED Talk.

And as we wrap up this week and thinking about all the ways that AI is spectacular and terrifying, horrible and useful, and things we cannot imagine yet, I can't stop thinking about the very act of staying, which is the heart of my whole TED Talk from 2024.

That extraordinary bravery that it takes to sit with someone through their worst moment and say, tell me more.