Kelly Corrigan

I think it is so beautiful when we stop trying to change each other.

And I just don't know how AI could ever do that.

How AI would ever ask us to accept it as it is.

It's continually conforming to what it thinks our expectations are of it.

Whereas real people sometimes refuse to change.

And sometimes that teaches us more than anything.

It seemed utterly obvious to me that AI and robots could never replace a parent.

But fairly quickly, I started to see that my strong reaction to the question was uninformed at best.

So I went looking for six speakers who would help unpack this whole question with me, and I found them.

This week, on the first ever takeover of TED Talks Daily, you're going to hear from all six of my speakers.

My name is Andy Lotz.

Sarah Blaffer-Hurdy.

And Dr. Alison Darcy.

All of these people helped me think through every conceivable angle around this question.

Should we let AI participate in the child-parent relationship?

And then I had all these conversations with technologists and psychologists, and I was asking them to be blunt with me.

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.