Duncan Keegan doesn't consider himself a poet, but this deeply beautiful talk shows otherwise. With simple grace and quiet eloquence, he celebrates family, connection and togetherness, often most called for at the hardest of times.This is episode seven of a seven-part series airing this week on TED Talks Daily, where author, podcaster and past TED speaker Kelly Corrigan ā and her six TED2025 speakers ā explore the question: In the world of artificial intelligence, what is a parent for?To hear more from Kelly Corrigan, listen to Kelly Corrigan Wonders wherever you get your podcasts, or at kellycorrigan.com/podcast.For a chance to give your own TED Talk, fill out the Idea Search Application: ted.com/ideasearch.Interested in learning more about upcoming TED events? Follow these links:TEDNext: ted.com/futureyouTEDSports: ted.com/sportsTEDAI Vienna: ted.com/ai-viennaTEDAI San Francisco: ted.com/ai-sf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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 at my day job, which is hosting the podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders, we do a long-form interview on Tuesdays.
On Fridays, we do a little thing called For the Good of the Order, which is anything I learned that week that we wanted to share. And then on Sundays, we share a eulogy sent in by a listener.
And basically it's our version of church, which is to say it's our way of reminding ourselves that we have a tremendous impact on one another over the course of our lifetimes and that there are very specific ways that we show people that we love them. And so we received this eulogy that a guy in Dublin named Duncan Keegan had written for someone he lost.
And it was a different category of thought and feeling and expression than we had ever seen before. And we have probably received a thousand eulogies submitted for this special part of the feed. And Tammy, my producer, said, I'm going to send you something today. And I need you to kind of clear your calendar for an hour after you read it, at least, because it is very affecting.
And she was right. And I just read these words and totally bawled. So when the Ted thing came up, I really wanted somebody to speak to the kind of loss that is always possible in family life. and what we risk when we join in relationship with one another. Because to me, that risk does not exist with AI.
So I reached out and I felt hesitant because I didn't want Duncan to feel that I was using his tragedy in any way. I just wanted to say, I have an opportunity. If it's interesting to you, terrific. If it's not, don't give it another thought. And he was interested. He was game.
and i knew that he would need absolutely no help from me and he did not i didn't change one word of this it was so right there what he said on stage it was like on the tip of his tongue and he was so ready for this moment he gave everybody in that audience and now for you listening an unforgettable emotional experience like an insight that we will carry with us until the days we die
I don't know what Duncan Keegan's LinkedIn profile says and I don't care. I met him through my podcast and ever since I have wanted more people to know him and his story and his mind and his heart. His talk is so generous and you just kind of have to hear it to believe it. I mean, honestly, people were just pinned to their seat. You could have heard a contact lens hit the floor. It was so quiet.
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