Kelly Corrigan

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I'm Kelly Corrigan, guest host of TED Talks Daily, here for a special week where we're taking a deep dive into the topic of AI and family life.

You are listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm Kelli Corrigan.

I'm a writer, I'm a podcaster, I'm a TED Talker, and I am taking over for Elise Hu this week for a special series on AI and family life.

I guest curated a session about this topic at TED 2025, and I'm here now to share these very special talks with you, along with a lot of behind the scenes recordings and personal insights to shed some light on the process of how these talks came to life.

So last year, after I gave my TED Talk, I was invited to this women's dinner.

And there were probably 25, 30 women there.

And they all had incredible jobs.

Many of them had spoken before on stage.

Many of them had written books.

Many of them run their own companies.

And Avni Patel Thompson was one of those women.

She had started to develop a product that parents would use to manage the onslaught of logistics involved in family life, such that the parents could be more engaged when it counted.

And I knew that if we were going to pull this session off, we were going to need somebody who was actually designing AI that parents would use to manage their families.

So I followed up with Avni and I said, what are you working on?

And she said, oh, we were just trying to lighten the load for parents using AI.