Go to on AI & Being the Bridge to the Next Generation

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A Maasai girl grows up milking cows at dawn, walking ten kilometers for water, sleeping eight to a bed, surrounded by 38 siblings and five mothers who all knew her name and sang her song. Then she leaves for the city—chosen husband, three children, a laptop, shoes with zippers. Kelly shares Ndinini Kimesera Sikar's TED talk about living in two worlds and the question that haunts her: what do we preserve as we rush toward the future? In the village, mental health was strong because life included everything research now tells us we need—movement, nature, community, belonging. In modern life, we've traded all of that for autonomy and advancement, filling bookstores with self-help guides trying to teach us what we once knew naturally. As AI promises to manage even more of family life, Ndinini asks us to pause and decide: do we know what we want to keep and do we know how we'll protect it before the current sweeps us away? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:09.5	This short segment is called a go-to.
0:12.9	It refers back to this crazy thing we used to do at the end of our sorority meetings in college.
0:17.8	If you can believe that, it was called for the good of the order.
0:20.1	And it was a way to share something that had emerged over the course of the week, which really was
0:26.3	a bit of learning or thinking or feeling that was to everyone's benefit to share. And so that's all we'll
0:34.0	do here. Every Friday, we release a go-to, and we encourage you to share it with
0:38.7	friends around the country. We know that people use it as a way to stay in touch with their
0:43.6	best friends across the country, and of course, far-flung family members, wherever they might be.
0:50.2	And as for your local nearest and dearest, consider it fodder for discussion over the course of the weekend.
0:56.5	This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders in our weekly segment called GoTo.
1:04.6	Welcome to a very special go-to series featuring a set of conversations and TED talks about how AI might involve itself
1:13.4	in family life. Is it a parent's best helper? Is it an alternative parent? Is it a nanny,
1:20.7	a personal assistant, a best friend, a confidant for our children, for us? You'll hear in this series a variety of people with a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
1:32.3	Talk about this moment that we find ourselves in, where AI is inserting itself everywhere,
1:38.1	including inside the most tender, consequential family relationships.
1:44.2	Enjoy.
1:47.7	You are listening to TED Talks Daily,
1:50.9	where we bring you new ideas and conversations
1:53.4	to spark your curiosity every day.
1:56.3	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:57.5	I'm a writer.
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