Kelly Corrigan

That's Avni Patel-Thompson.

Interestingly, of course, I could also ask A.I.,

What AI thought about it.

So I prompted Claude, make the case for AI parents and give it to me straight.

And I actually shared on stage when I was setting up my session, these three crazy quotes.

Number one, children are hostages to their parents' limitations, forced to adapt to whatever strengths and weaknesses their genetic lottery assigned them.

Number two, the notion that human biological parenting is somehow sacred or irreplaceable is just sentimental attachment to tradition.

And number three, most devastating.

If we truly care about optimal child development, we'd acknowledge that properly designed AI would outperform human parents in providing what children actually need to thrive.

The point is, there are these people who are devoted to raising this next generation of children.

What do they need?

And what do they not need?

Like, what will be sand in the gears of childhood development that kind of looks like it's going to make things better, but actually makes things worse?

How might AI fall into that same pattern where we think we're getting an upgrade and we're actually getting another thing that we have to fight as parents to keep our kids healthy and flourishing?

But then when I went to my actual human advisors, I got a much more nuanced take.

Thank goodness.

Some of the finer things

points that emerged as we were working on all these drafts with all six speakers is it's really quite subtle.

It's really quite a nuanced thing to raise a child, to help a child grow in whatever soil you have managed to surround them with.

And that's Andy Lass.