Kelly Corrigan

This is like, I'm on team human.

I want everybody to be connecting with each other way more eyeball to eyeball, heart to heart.

I wanted Allison to go first because I thought that...

As my initial reaction to the whole idea of AI and parenting was kind of like, sure, like they can sort through your schedule stuff, like they can do logistics, but they're not going to get involved in the deeper interactions that help kids come into themselves as adults.

Like that's just territory that will never be touched.

And then all of a sudden it was like, oh no, of course that will be touched.

Of course there are cases where AI will be better than some parents at some conversations.

And so I turned to Alison to say, tell me everything about the 1.5 million people who have used Wobot

And help me understand how that might end up looking in the context specifically of family life.

To disavow the audience of this separation that they might have in their mind as I did.

That there's sort of a logistics level that AI could play at.

And then there's this very intimate emotional level that AI will never touch.

I had to show them that AI was already in the intimate space.

in very meaningful ways.

And so to start us off this week, here is my conversation with Dr. Alison Darcy about the ways that AI might participate in the most intimate consequential conversations we ever have.

Welcome.

Hi, thank you.

So will you describe for us the average Wobot interaction?

When I think about it, I think there's at least four concerns come to mind.

One is price always.