Sarah Kay

And his question was, when you were up there, were you scared?

And his answer was, yes, of course, but never more than I was curious.

And I think that that's really helpful as a guideline for me.

Like, yeah, realizations and self-realizations and discoveries about the world can be scary.

And I am so curious about myself and the world that I live in and letting that curiosity take the steering wheel.

Like fear can be in the car, but it doesn't get to drive.

Yeah.

Okay.

I don't know.

That's a predictive question, a prediction I won't make.

But what I would say is it makes me sad when people delegate the parts of themselves that make them human to the non-humans.

Because it means you're robbing yourself of those opportunities to be as human as possible.

And so like, you know, when people are like, oh, you can just get the AI to write your wife a love letter, I guess.

But do you think your wife wants like a well-scripted AI written love letter?

Or do you think your wife wants like you to be vulnerably stumbling through love?

trying to find language for your feelings for her, you know, like that's the human part and to give it away robs you of that opportunity.

So I think you could read AI poems, I guess, but I think when we read a poem written by a human, we feel their humanness through the language and it is their mortality and it is their unique identity.

life and living that is only theirs that made that poem possible.

That's what we're interested in and excited about, not predicting what words belong in what order.

Thank you, Elise, so much.