The TED AI Show: Why we can't fix bias with more AI w/ Patrick Lin
11 Jun 2024
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Technology is supposed to make our lives better – but who gets to decide how that improvement unfo...
3 mysteries of the universe — and a new force that might explain them | Alex Keshavarzi
07 Jun 2024
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We're still in the dark about what 95 percent of our universe is made of — and the standard model ...
The TED AI Show: AI may take jobs – but not our creativity w/ artist Claire Silver
04 Jun 2024
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Like many new, exciting artistic technologies before it, the development of AI is begging us to ask:...
Can AI catch criminals at sea? | Dyhia Belhabib
31 May 2024
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Can AI help catch oceanic outlaws? From drug smugglers to modern-day pirates, maritime crime fighter...
The TED AI Show: What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner
28 May 2024
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If there’s one AI company that’s made a splash in mainstream vernacular, it’s OpenAI, the comp...
The AI-powered tools supercharging your imagination | Bilawal Sidhu
24 May 2024
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How is AI changing the nature of human imagination and creativity? Through a mind-bending tour of ne...
The TED AI Show: Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory
21 May 2024
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Could you spot a deepfake? We’re entering a new world where generative AI is challenging our sense...
Why don't we have better robots yet? | Ken Goldberg
17 May 2024
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Why hasn't the dream of having a robot at home to do your chores become a reality yet? With three de...
AI and the paradox of self-replacing workers | Madison Mohns
10 May 2024
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As companies introduce AI into the workplace to increase productivity, an uncomfortable paradox is e...
How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri
03 May 2024
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Modern life runs on wireless technology. What if the energy powering our devices could also be trans...
How AI and democracy can fix each other | Divya Siddarth
26 Apr 2024
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We don't have to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of technological progress, says social technolog...
How clicking a single link can cost millions | Ryan Pullen
19 Apr 2024
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Is cybercrime getting easier? Cybersecurity expert Ryan Pullen dives into his work investigating mas...
The TED AI Show: Coming May 21st
16 Apr 2024
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Is AI about to change everything? Whether you’re optimistic, pessimistic, or somewhere in between ...
Can nanoparticles help fight hunger? | Christy L. Haynes
12 Apr 2024
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A game-changing solution to the global food crisis could come from something so tiny you can't see i...
What's the point of digital fashion? | Karinna Grant
05 Apr 2024
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What if you could own more clothes without crowding your closet or growing your carbon footprint? In...
The next grand challenge for AI | Jim Fan
29 Mar 2024
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Researcher Jim Fan presents the next grand challenge in the quest for AI: the "foundation agent," wh...
How Bill Gates spends $9 billion a year - The TED Interview
28 Mar 2024
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This is an episode of the latest season of The TED Interview, focused on Infectious Generosity.To ge...
"How do I make the most of my time at my soulless job?" - Fixable
26 Mar 2024
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Delaney left a fulfilling teaching career to join the tech industry. But after a round of layoffs le...
Why AI is incredibly smart -- and shockingly stupid | Yejin Choi
22 Mar 2024
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Computer scientist Yejin Choi is here to demystify the current state of massive artificial intellige...
DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the future of AI | The TED Interview
15 Mar 2024
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Demis Hassabis is one of tech's most brilliant minds. A chess-playing child prodigy turned researche...
Advice for leaders on creating a culture of belonging | Melonie D. Parker
08 Mar 2024
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Google's chief diversity officer Melonie D. Parker joins journalist and host of the "TED Tech" podca...
Your creative superpowers can help protect democracy | Sofia Ongele
01 Mar 2024
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"Democracy is more fun and inviting when you take it into your own hands," says creator and activist...
The exciting, perilous journey toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever
23 Feb 2024
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Just weeks before the management shakeup at OpenAI rocked Silicon Valley and made international news...
Why you should ditch deadly fossil-fuel appliances | Donnel Baird
16 Feb 2024
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In the US, people spend the overwhelming majority of their time inside buildings that burn fossil fu...
How one small idea led to $1 million of paid water bills | Tiffani Ashley Bell
09 Feb 2024
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When programmer Tiffani Ashley Bell learned that thousands of people in Detroit were facing water sh...
When AI can fake reality, who can you trust? | Sam Gregory
02 Feb 2024
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We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss realit...
How to harness abundant, clean energy for 10 billion people | Julio Friedmann
26 Jan 2024
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We can produce abundant, sustainable and cheap energy — for everyone, says physicist Julio Friedma...
The most important century in human history | George Zaidan
19 Jan 2024
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Is it possible that this century is the most important one in human history? The 21st century has al...
The powerful possibilities of recycling the world's batteries | Emma Nehrenheim
12 Jan 2024
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The world has plenty of clean energy. The problem is storing that energy and getting it where we nee...
Over 20,000 joined the NPR/Columbia study to move throughout the day. Did it work? | Body Electric
11 Jan 2024
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This is an episode we think you might like of Body Electric. TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi di...
The awesome potential of many metaverses | Agnes Larsson
05 Jan 2024
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In the multitude of metaverses that exist there are infinite possibilities for inclusivity and creat...
How global virtual communities can help kids achieve their dreams | Matthew Garcia
29 Dec 2023
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How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research mo...
Is technology our savior — or our slayer? | Ruha Benjamin
22 Dec 2023
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When it comes to technology, we're often presented with two contrasting visions of the future: one w...
AI is dangerous, but not for the reasons you think | Sasha Luccioni
15 Dec 2023
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AI won't kill us all — but that doesn't make it trustworthy. Instead of getting distracted by futu...
How to make learning as addictive as social media | Luis von Ahn
08 Dec 2023
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When technologist Luis von Ahn was building the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, he face...
A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text | Tom Oxley
01 Dec 2023
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What if you could control your digital devices using just the power of thought? That's the incredibl...
The tech we need to fight workplace ageism | Piyachart Phiromswad
24 Nov 2023
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From exoskeletons and robotic arms to the mass adoption of remote work, economist Piyachart Phiromsw...
Uber, and how to fix things when trust is broken | Fixable
17 Nov 2023
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This is an episode of Fixable, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. This week, Anne and Fr...
Can AI help solve the climate crisis? | Sims Witherspoon
10 Nov 2023
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“AI can be a transformational tool in our fight against climate change," says Sims Witherspoon, a ...
How "digital twins" could help us predict the future | Karen Willcox
03 Nov 2023
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From health-tracking wearables to smartphones and beyond, data collection and computer modeling have...
The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann
27 Oct 2023
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Imagine a boat that propels by moving its "tail" from side to side, just like a fish. That's the kin...
War, AI and the new global arms race | Alexandr Wang
20 Oct 2023
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Lethal drones with facial recognition, armed robots, autonomous fighter jets: we're at the dawn of a...
Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker
13 Oct 2023
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What if we could hear nature's ultrasonic communication -- and talk back? From a bat's shrill speech...
The growing megafire crisis — and how to contain it | George T. Whitesides
06 Oct 2023
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Megafires, or fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are becoming more frequent worldwide, wreakin...
So much sitting, looking at screens. Can we combat our sedentary lives? | Body Electric
03 Oct 2023
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This is an episode of Body Electric a series airing over at the TED Radio Hour. In this special seri...
Introducing Body Electric
02 Oct 2023
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We’ve got a special 6-part series with an interactive twist coming your way: On Body Electric, TED...
The urgent risks of runaway AI -- and what to do about them | Gary Marcus
29 Sep 2023
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Will truth and reason survive the evolution of artificial intelligence? AI researcher Gary Marcus sa...
What the world can learn from China's innovation playbook | Keyu Jin
22 Sep 2023
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In the last few decades, China has gone from technological scarcity to abundance. What sparked this ...
A powerful new neurotech tool for augmenting your mind | Conor Russomanno
15 Sep 2023
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In an astonishing talk and tech demo, neurotechnologist Conor Russomanno shares his work building br...
The incredible creativity of deepfakes -- and the worrying future of AI | Tom Graham
08 Sep 2023
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AI-generated media that looks and sounds exactly like the real world will soon permeate our lives. H...
The outlaws of the ocean -- and how we're reeling them in | Tony Long
01 Sep 2023
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Pirate fishing, oil spills and other undetected crimes are destroying ocean ecosystems -- but we can...
How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Modern life runs on wireless technology. What if the energy powering our devices could also be trans...
Why the passport needs an upgrade | Karoli Hindriks
18 Aug 2023
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It's time to give paper passports a digital upgrade, says entrepreneur Karoli Hindriks. Looking to E...
The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change | Rose M. Mutiso
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this perspective-shifting talk, energy researcher Rose M. Mutiso makes the case for prioritizing ...
The disappearing computer -- and a world where you can take AI everywhere | Imran Chaudhri
04 Aug 2023
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In this exclusive preview of groundbreaking, unreleased technology, former Apple designer and Humane...
Who owns the internet of the future? | Ordinary Things
28 Jul 2023
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The emergence of data-driven mass surveillance "is threatening to turn privacy into a relic of the 2...
How one small idea led to $1 million of paid water bills | Tiffani Ashley Bell
21 Jul 2023
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When programmer Tiffani Ashley Bell learned that thousands of people in Detroit were facing water sh...
How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan
14 Jul 2023
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Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greate...
The Internet's First Main Character? | The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1999, and sixteen years after its original release, a new Star Wars is finally coming. Fans hav...
The AI Dilemma | Your Undivided Attention
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode from Your Undivided Attention, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective.At C...
Why AI is incredibly smart -- and shockingly stupid | Yejin Choi
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Computer scientist Yejin Choi is here to demystify the current state of massive artificial intellige...
TikTok's CEO on its future -- and what makes its algorithm different | Shou Chew
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok CEO Shou Chew dives into how the trend-setting video app and cultural phenomenon works -- fro...
The inside story of ChatGPT's astonishing potential | Greg Brockman
16 Jun 2023
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In a talk from the cutting edge of technology, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman explores the underlyin...
How we could solve the dark matter mystery | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The universe that we know, with its luminous stars and orbiting planets, is largely made up of eleme...
Cultivating good power with longtime IBM CEO Ginni Rometty | ReThinking with Adam Grant
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ginni Rometty rose through the ranks at IBM to become their first female CEO. After leading the icon...
Why people and AI make good business partners | Shervin Khodabandeh
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the data-driven capabilities of AI are combined with human creativity and ingenuit...
What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are curren...
Fixable: Nai’a - "How do I get the attention of a distracted manager?"
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nai’a is a product operations manager at an education technology company that has gone through a m...
Meet the massive machines removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere | Jan Wurzbacher
05 May 2023
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To prevent global warming, we need to drastically reduce pollution. After that, we need to trap as m...
May the 4th Be With You: Introducing The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Love him or hate him, ever since his debut in Star Wars Episode 1, Jar Jar Binks has been one of the...
7 new species of robot that jump, dance -- and walk on water | Dennis Hong
28 Apr 2023
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More than a decade ago, roboticist Dennis Hong debuted a new generation of cutting-edge robots. Now ...
Are insect brains the secret to great AI? | Frances S. Chance
21 Apr 2023
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Are insects the key to brain-inspired computing? Neuroscientist Frances S. Chance thinks so. In this...
What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe | Jessie Christiansen
14 Apr 2023
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What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christianse...
The internet's accessibility problem -- and how to fix it | Clive Loseby
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The internet provides access to knowledge for billions across the world, but how accessible is it re...
Exploring how we think: Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 1 | TED Radio Hour
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For millennia, humans have debated the mind, body, spirit connection. But today, the phrase sounds t...
Demystifying the wild world of crypto | Laura Shin
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is crypto truly the next big thing, or is it just a money-sucking flash in the pan? In a wide-rangin...
Are video calls the best we can do in the age of the metaverse? | Josephine Eyre
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Remote work, while redefining the workplace landscape, seems stuck behind endless video conference c...
How will AI change the world? | George Zaidan and Stuart Russell
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life -- and likely the...
Why the passport needs an upgrade | Karoli Hindriks
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to give paper passports a digital upgrade, says entrepreneur Karoli Hindriks. Looking to E...
A future with fewer cars | Freeman H. Shen
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if your car could drop you off and then find parking by itself? According to electric vehicle e...
Introducing Good Sport
17 Feb 2023
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This week on TED Tech we’re excited to introduce TED’s newest podcast, Good Sport, hosted by vet...
Esports, virtual Formula 1 and the new era of play | James Hodge
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the line between the physical and digital worlds blur, so does the line between real-world and vi...
The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a boat that propels by moving its "tail" from side to side, just like a fish. That's the kin...
How global virtual communities can help kids achieve their dreams | Matthew Garcia
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research mo...
Meet the world's largest machine | Henry Richardson
20 Jan 2023
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In 1967, Homer Loutzenheuser flipped a switch and connected the power grids of the United States, fo...
4 ways to design a disability-friendly future | Meghan Hussey
13 Jan 2023
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Nearly fifteen percent of the world's population lives with a disability, yet this massive chunk of ...
How gaming can be a force for good | Noah Raford
12 Jan 2023
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If you think social media is powerful, keep an eye on immersive video games, says futurist Noah Rafo...
A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net | Amanda Renteria
02 Jan 2023
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This week on TED Tech we are revisiting a talk by digital public servant Amanda Renteria. Millions o...
Real social media solutions, with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen | Your Undivided Attention
23 Dec 2022
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When it comes to social media risk, there is reason to hope for consensus. Center for Humane Technol...
The shift we need to stop mass surveillance | Albert Fox Cahn
16 Dec 2022
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Mass surveillance is worse than you think, but the solutions are simpler than you realize, says lawy...
What if you could sing in your favorite musician's voice? | Holly Herndon
09 Dec 2022
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What if you could create new music using your favorite musician's voice? Sharing her melodic gifts w...
The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change | Rose M. Mutiso
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this perspective-shifting talk, energy researcher Rose M. Mutiso makes the case for prioritizing ...
How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan
18 Nov 2022
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As climate change accelerates, finding clean alternatives to fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. ...
How video game skills can get you ahead in life | William Collis
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to be a pro gamer? Esports expert William Collis charts the rise of the multibilli...
The awesome potential of many metaverses | Agnes Larsson
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the multitude of metaverses that exist there are infinite possibilities for inclusivity and creat...
Could a DAO build the next great city? | Scott Fitsimones
28 Oct 2022
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Could DAOs, or "decentralized autonomous organizations," be the key to building the next great city?...
How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard
21 Oct 2022
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Growing up in the public eye, multi-hyphenate creator Bryce Dallas Howard experienced the familiar p...
The rebel radio that brought down a war criminal | Diana Sierra Becerra
14 Oct 2022
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Since the 1800s, a handful of oligarchs had controlled nearly all of El Salvador's land, forcing lab...
Where on Earth will people live in the future? | Parag Khanna
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the return of nomadic living to a climate-disrupted world, author and global strategist Parag K...
How we could solve the dark matter mystery | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The universe that we know, with its luminous stars and orbiting planets, is largely made up of eleme...