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TED Tech — 264 episodes

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Is AI progress stuck? | Jennifer Golbeck (re-release)

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Why we need to talk about money to save the planet with Yi Li and Brent Loken

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What if our infrastructure could repair itself? with Mark Miodownik and Congrui Jin

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The probe on a mission to touch the Sun | Nour E. Rawafi (re-release)

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AI is changing how we talk and think. How can we stop it? with Adam Aleksic and Advait Sarkar

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How satellite imagery is helping stop deforestation with Tasso Azevedo and Anna Rothschild

7

How to stop doomscrolling — and what to do instead? (w/ Katherine Cross) | from How to Be a Better Human

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Is the AI bubble about to burst? | Henrik Zeberg

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Meet NEO, your robot butler in training | Bernt Børnich

10

Everything you need to know about AI agents | Swami Sivasubramanian

11

AI's next frontier isn't where you might expect | Hardy Pemhiwa

12

How we built Watch Duty, the lifesaving wildfire alert app | John Mills

13

How satellites are supporting farmers across Africa | Catherine Nakalembe

14

The best thing that could happen to the energy industry | Matt Tilleard

15

How to pull the emergency brake on global warming | Mohamed A. Sultan

16

Inside India's astonishing solar revolution | Kanika Chawla

17

What Earth in 2125 could look like | Iseult Gillespie

18

Want to make change? Let young people tell their stories | Anshul Tewari

19

What happens in your brain when you pay attention? w/ Dr. Sasha Hamdani | from TED Health

20

What 2025 Taught Us—And Where 2026 Is Taking Us

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Dr. Joy Buolamwini | from Design Matters

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The multidimensional magic of modern maps | Peter Wilczynski

23

Is AI ruining music? | Dustin Ballard

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Tech Solutions (#4): How organizations can grow in a post-aid world (with Jacqueline Novogratz)

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Tech Solutions (#3): How one of China’s biggest tech companies is tackling carbon removal (with Xu Hao)

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Tech Solutions (#2): How to balance the AI boom and environmental responsibility (with Juan M. Lavista Ferres)

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Tech Solutions (#1): The affordable tech that will revolutionize farming (with Samir Ibrahim and Josephine Waweru)

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When AI Cannibalizes Its Data | NPR's Short Wave

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The inside story of Notre-Dame's incredible reconstruction | Philippe Villeneuve

30

I’ll probably lose my job to AI. Here’s why that’s OK | Megan J. McArdle

31

How Texas became America’s biggest producer of wind energy

32

Inside a dark web kill list | Carl Miller

33

Interview: The plant-based coating that is eliminating food spoilage | Jenny Du

34

How to build in space for life on Earth | Ariel Ekblaw

35

The AI revolution is underhyped | Eric Schmidt

36

The future of finding love with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd | ReThinking with Adam Grant

37

A concrete plan for sustainable cement | Ryan Gilliam

38

A survival guide for musicians in the age of AI | Harvey Mason jr.

39

Why your phone battery gets worse over time | George Zaidan

40

Will AI make humans extinct? | Yoshua Bengio

41

Is AI your next hire? | Fixable

42

Why AI is our ultimate test and greatest invitation | Tristan Harris

43

Are we cooked? How social media shapes your language | Adam Aleksic

44

The best way to lower Earth’s temperature — fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza

45

Are we still human if robots help raise our babies? | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Kelly Corrigan takeover)

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Can AI companions help heal loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda

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Why are we sending critical metals to the dump? | Jeff More

48

Information Inoculation: Defending Against Medical Myths: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health

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What a wolf’s howl can tell us about the future of AI | Jeffrey T. Reed

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The best invention since sliced bread? | Rachel Yang

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How AI models steal creative work — and what to do about it | Ed Newton-Rex

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How Substack is breaking down traditional media gatekeepers | Hamish McKenzie

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Whitney Houston Hologram: The Zombification of an Icon | There Are No Girls on the Internet

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The food that fertilizes itself | Giles E.D. Oldroyd

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Love, trust and marketing in the age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti

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Will AI make us the last generation to read and write? | Victor Riparbelli

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AI, “normies,” and ethical consumption algorithms with Julia Longoria | Good Robot

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The magic intelligence in the sky | Good Robot

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Have we reached the limit of computer power? | Sajan Saini and George Zaidan

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How AI can bridge the Deaf and hearing worlds | Adam Munder

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The high-wire act of unlocking clean energy | Jason Huang

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Can Europe win the age of AI? | Thomas Dohmke

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How AI is saving billions of years of human research time | Max Jaderberg

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Is AI progress stuck? | Jennifer Golbeck

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How to embrace – and challenge – the idea of “beauty” in the technological age (w / Elise Hu) | How to Be a Better Human

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Can AI master the art of humor? | Bob Mankoff

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How AI could hack democracy | Lawrence Lessig

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ReThinking with Adam Grant: Sam Altman on the future of AI and humanity

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How a worm could save humanity from bad AI | Ramin Hasani

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A sonic journey through the universe | Felipe Sánchez Luna

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The probe on a mission to touch the Sun | Nour E. Rawafi

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ReThinking with Adam Grant: The art of invention with Nathan Myhrvold

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The growing megafire crisis — and how to contain it | George T. Whitesides

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Fixable: Why is Amazon dragging its employees back into the office?

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The TED AI Show: How AI digital doppelgängers could change the way we communicate w/ Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli

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Could we replace data centers with … plant DNA? | Cliff Kapono and Keolu Fox

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The TED AI Show: Could AI really achieve consciousness? w/ neuroscientist Anil Seth

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5 ethical principles for digitizing humanitarian aid | Aarathi Krishnan

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The TED AI Show: How AI robots learn just like babies — but a million times faster w/ NVIDIA’s Rev Lebaredian

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Who owns the internet of the future? | Ordinary Things

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How to stop doom scrolling – and have a better experience online with Jay Van Bavel (from ReThinking)

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How quadratic funding could finance your dreams | Kevin Owocki

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The TED AI Show: Building an AI creator community w/ Civitai founders Justin Meyer and Maxfield Hulker

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What’s next for immersive storytelling? | Mark Grimmer

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The TED AI Show: An AI chatbot that talks back w/ ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode

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The sweet future of vertical farming | Hiroki Koga

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The TED AI Show: How AI is changing national security w/ Kathleen Fisher

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Could we build a miniature sun on Earth? | George Zaidan

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The TED AI Show: How open-source AI will reshape power dynamics in tech w/ Hugging Face CSO Thomas Wolf

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Can AI preserve your most precious memories? | Pau Aleikum Garcia

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The TED AI Show: How AI is changing who gets hired – and who doesn’t w/ Hilke Schellmann

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Time traveling with AI to connect with lost loved ones | Amy Kurzweil

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The TED AI Show: How Meta wants to shape our digital future with open source AI w/ Ragavan Srinivasan

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The invisible networks shaping your everyday life | Deb Chachra

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The TED AI Show: Is Google’s reign over? The future of AI search w/ Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas

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The innovators building Africa's thriving tech scene | Peace Itimi

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The TED AI Show: How AI will transform dubbing in Hollywood w/ Scott Mann

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The missing piece of the clean energy transition | Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha

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The TED AI Show: The UN is speaking up about AI — here’s what they’re saying

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The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers | Tammy Ma

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The TED AI Show: Humanity’s first AI election w/ WIRED's Vittoria Elliott

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The satellite helping slow climate change — right now | Millie Chu Baird

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The TED AI Show: Can AI read your mind? The battle for your brain w/ Nita Farahany

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Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler | Hartmut Neven

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The TED AI Show: Can AI predict (and control) the weather? w/ Dion Harris and Tapio Schneider

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AI that connects the digital and physical worlds | Anima Anandkumar

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The TED AI Show: Sal Khan says AI won’t destroy education -- but there’s a catch

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Next up for AI? Dancing robots | Catie Cuan

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How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari

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Your right to repair AI systems | Rumman Chowdhury

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How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan

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How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner

113

12 predictions for the future of technology | Vinod Khosla

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Entertainment is getting an AI upgrade | Kylan Gibbs

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The TED AI Show: Is AI just all hype? w/ Gary Marcus

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With AI, anyone can be a coder now | Thomas Dohmke

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The TED AI Show: Will AI “eat software” — and what’ll happen to coders? w/ GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke

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What is an AI anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman

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The TED AI Show: AI therapy is here. What does it mean for you? w/ Dr. Alison Darcy and Brian Chandler

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What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko

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The TED AI Show: Your next best friend may be 100% AI w/ Purnendu Mukherjee

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How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe | Demis Hassabis

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The TED AI Show: Why we can't fix bias with more AI w/ Patrick Lin

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3 mysteries of the universe — and a new force that might explain them | Alex Keshavarzi

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The TED AI Show: AI may take jobs – but not our creativity w/ artist Claire Silver

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Can AI catch criminals at sea? | Dyhia Belhabib

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The TED AI Show: What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner

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The AI-powered tools supercharging your imagination | Bilawal Sidhu

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The TED AI Show: Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory

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Why don't we have better robots yet? | Ken Goldberg

131

AI and the paradox of self-replacing workers | Madison Mohns

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How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri

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How AI and democracy can fix each other | Divya Siddarth

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How clicking a single link can cost millions | Ryan Pullen

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The TED AI Show: Coming May 21st

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Can nanoparticles help fight hunger? | Christy L. Haynes

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What's the point of digital fashion? | Karinna Grant

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The next grand challenge for AI | Jim Fan

139

How Bill Gates spends $9 billion a year - The TED Interview

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"How do I make the most of my time at my soulless job?" - Fixable

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Why AI is incredibly smart -- and shockingly stupid | Yejin Choi

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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the future of AI | The TED Interview

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Advice for leaders on creating a culture of belonging | Melonie D. Parker

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Your creative superpowers can help protect democracy | Sofia Ongele

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The exciting, perilous journey toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever

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Why you should ditch deadly fossil-fuel appliances | Donnel Baird

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How one small idea led to $1 million of paid water bills | Tiffani Ashley Bell

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When AI can fake reality, who can you trust? | Sam Gregory

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How to harness abundant, clean energy for 10 billion people | Julio Friedmann

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The most important century in human history | George Zaidan

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The powerful possibilities of recycling the world's batteries | Emma Nehrenheim

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Over 20,000 joined the NPR/Columbia study to move throughout the day. Did it work? | Body Electric

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The awesome potential of many metaverses | Agnes Larsson

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How global virtual communities can help kids achieve their dreams | Matthew Garcia

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Is technology our savior — or our slayer? | Ruha Benjamin

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AI is dangerous, but not for the reasons you think | Sasha Luccioni

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How to make learning as addictive as social media | Luis von Ahn

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A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text | Tom Oxley

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The tech we need to fight workplace ageism | Piyachart Phiromswad

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Uber, and how to fix things when trust is broken | Fixable

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Can AI help solve the climate crisis? | Sims Witherspoon

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How "digital twins" could help us predict the future | Karen Willcox

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The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann

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War, AI and the new global arms race | Alexandr Wang

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Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker

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The growing megafire crisis — and how to contain it | George T. Whitesides

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So much sitting, looking at screens. Can we combat our sedentary lives? | Body Electric

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Introducing Body Electric

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The urgent risks of runaway AI -- and what to do about them | Gary Marcus

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What the world can learn from China's innovation playbook | Keyu Jin

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A powerful new neurotech tool for augmenting your mind | Conor Russomanno

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The incredible creativity of deepfakes -- and the worrying future of AI | Tom Graham

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The outlaws of the ocean -- and how we're reeling them in | Tony Long

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How wireless energy from space could power everything | Ali Hajimiri

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Why the passport needs an upgrade | Karoli Hindriks

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The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change | Rose M. Mutiso

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The disappearing computer -- and a world where you can take AI everywhere | Imran Chaudhri

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Who owns the internet of the future? | Ordinary Things

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How one small idea led to $1 million of paid water bills | Tiffani Ashley Bell

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How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan

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The Internet's First Main Character? | The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks

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The AI Dilemma | Your Undivided Attention

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Why AI is incredibly smart -- and shockingly stupid | Yejin Choi

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TikTok's CEO on its future -- and what makes its algorithm different | Shou Chew

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The inside story of ChatGPT's astonishing potential | Greg Brockman

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How we could solve the dark matter mystery | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Cultivating good power with longtime IBM CEO Ginni Rometty | ReThinking with Adam Grant

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Why people and AI make good business partners | Shervin Khodabandeh

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What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? | Ksenia Petrichenko

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Fixable: Nai’a - "How do I get the attention of a distracted manager?"

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Meet the massive machines removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere | Jan Wurzbacher

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May the 4th Be With You: Introducing The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks

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7 new species of robot that jump, dance -- and walk on water | Dennis Hong

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Are insect brains the secret to great AI? | Frances S. Chance

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What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe | Jessie Christiansen

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The internet's accessibility problem -- and how to fix it | Clive Loseby

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Exploring how we think: Mind, Body, Spirit - Part 1 | TED Radio Hour

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Demystifying the wild world of crypto | Laura Shin

199

Are video calls the best we can do in the age of the metaverse? | Josephine Eyre

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How will AI change the world? | George Zaidan and Stuart Russell

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Why the passport needs an upgrade | Karoli Hindriks

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A future with fewer cars | Freeman H. Shen

203

Introducing Good Sport

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Esports, virtual Formula 1 and the new era of play | James Hodge

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The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann

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How global virtual communities can help kids achieve their dreams | Matthew Garcia

207

Meet the world's largest machine | Henry Richardson

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4 ways to design a disability-friendly future | Meghan Hussey

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How gaming can be a force for good | Noah Raford

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A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net | Amanda Renteria

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Real social media solutions, with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen | Your Undivided Attention

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The shift we need to stop mass surveillance | Albert Fox Cahn

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What if you could sing in your favorite musician's voice? | Holly Herndon

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The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change | Rose M. Mutiso

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How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era | Vaitea Cowan

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How video game skills can get you ahead in life | William Collis

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The awesome potential of many metaverses | Agnes Larsson

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Could a DAO build the next great city? | Scott Fitsimones

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How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard

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The rebel radio that brought down a war criminal | Diana Sierra Becerra

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Where on Earth will people live in the future? | Parag Khanna

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How we could solve the dark matter mystery | Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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An alternative to the Silicon Valley unicorn | Your Undivided Attention

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Mark Cuban doesn’t believe in following your passions | ReThinking with Adam Grant

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How is your city tackling the climate crisis? | Marvin Rees

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5 ethical principles for digitizing humanitarian aid | Aarathi Krishnan

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A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text | Tom Oxley

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You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills | Kiah Williams

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A creator-led internet, built on blockchain | Adam Mosseri

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A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net | Amanda Renteria

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NFTs, the metaverse and the future of digital art | Elizabeth Strickler

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Why people and AI make good business partners | Shervin Khodabandeh

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Kevin Roose | How to Be a Better Human

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3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right | TED Business

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How to predict the future w| The TED Interview

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How Caracas combats propaganda | Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala

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Satya Nadella is building the future | WorkLife with Adam Grant

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What happens when biology becomes technology? | Christina Agapakis

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Your self-driving robotaxi is almost here | Aicha Evans

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How to fix the "bugs" in the net-zero code | Lucas Joppa

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How AI can help shatter barriers to equality | Jamila Gordon

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The Dark Side of Decentralization | Your Undivided Attention

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The real hotbed of innovation (hint: it's not big cities) | Xiaowei R. Wang

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Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution | Emma Hart

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The "greenhouse-in-a-box" empowering farmers in India | Sathya Raghu Mokkapati

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Listen now: WorkLife season 5

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The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione

248

6 big ethical questions about the future of AI | Genevieve Bell

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The untapped energy source that could power the planet | Jamie C. Beard

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Why we're more honest with machines than people | Anne Scherer

251

The problem of vaccine spoilage -- and a smart sensor to help | Nithya Ramanathan

252

The life-changing power of assistive technologies | Jane Velkovski

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Visions for the future | Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan

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A free and fair internet benefits everyone | Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa

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Super speed, magnetic levitation and the vision behind the hyperloop | Josh Giegel

256

Why don't we cover the desert with solar panels? | Dan Kwartler

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Siri, Alexa, Google ... what comes next? | Karen Lellouche Tordjman

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The race to build AI that benefits humanity | Sam Altman

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An ever-evolving map of everything on Earth | Jack Dangermond

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Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells? | Nabiha Saklayen

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What happens when biology becomes technology? | Christina Agapakis

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Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech | Sharon Weinberger

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Why we have an emotional connection to robots | Kate Darling

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How NFTs are building the internet of the future | Kayvon Tehranian