Fortune MPW Summit Remarks (October 2025)

Brown's October 2025 remarks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit produced the formulation that organized Edo Segal's decision to seek her work as a lens on the AI transition. The line — It's my least favorite platitude about AI. Our deeply human skills will keep us relevant. We're shit at being deeply human right now. We can't stand each other — cut through the reassurance that dominated the conference circuit's AI coverage. The standard reassurance held that creativity, empathy, and judgment would remain human domains while machines handled mechanical work. Brown's rejection of this reassurance was not technophobic. It was diagnostic: the human skills that were supposed to save humans had been systematically atrophied by decades of professional culture that rewarded the opposite of what the AI transition would require.