Kelly Corrigan

And I would bring my naive kind of reaction to the fundamental question to them.

So, for example, I was like, you know, a mom bot's not going to breastfeed.

And the person was like, of course, a mom bot's going to breastfeed.

Like they're going to build it and it'll have the same touch and temperature as a breast and the milk will flow through it.

And the mom bot will have eyes that make contact with the baby and baby will be none the wiser.

And it was like, oh my God, please don't tell me that's true.

I cannot deal with that.

That's one of my speakers, Sarah Blaffer Hurdy.

And then you talk to the psychologists who say, of course, a mom bot will be created because there are so many parents out there who are not capable of doing the work well.

And that is like a horrible, true thing that you have to face when you consider this question.

In what ways will AI be better, preferable and superior to a parent or at least some living parents?

That's Dr. Alison Darcy.

So that took us into this really crazy, interesting conversation, which is if you were to have an utterly responsive mom bot who remembered every single thing you said and was available to you 24 seven for limitless conversation and attention.

Will that make you less tolerant of your actual dumb, moody, sleeping, sometimes mother?

Or your hardworking, tired, a little tipsy father?

And our intolerance for one another is, I think, a real danger with AI.

I think the idea that your mother isn't available to you, that your father isn't available to you when you need them, is a space of growth that we don't actually see as such.

That's Duncan Keegan.

So I took that back to my technologist friend, who's so blunt with me, and I said, what about this problem?

What about...