Kelly Corrigan

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.

What else?

Go on.

Like I can hear anything you want to tell me.

That loving space that's created that's so painful and terrifying cannot be replicated by a mom bot or a parenting bot.

Because the mom bot isn't afraid.

The mom bot doesn't know pain.

The mom bot cannot love you.

The mom bot does not need courage to stay.

And so Duncan's talk has left me feeling glad to be human, feeling glad to be living inside the tremendous risk that comes with deep human relationships.

There's nowhere I'd rather be.

I have had loss.

I've suffered it.

And that suffering feels a lot like love, just in a different form.

Duncan put humanity in the absolute center of the conversation.

He put our deepest humanity, our most human moments, dead center.

And I know not everyone agrees with me or the questions and thoughts that we've explored here this week.