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Why humans should merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix

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Why AI isn't going to become conscious | Anil Seth

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How to parent in the age of AI with Stephen Remedios and Avni Patel Thompson

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Exploring the ocean through whales with Eric Stackpole

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The hidden health benefits of wearables technology with Michael Snyder

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Sherrell's Top 5 (#1): How we built Watch Duty, the lifesaving wildfire alert app with John Mills

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Sherrell's Top 5 (#2): Inside India's astonishing solar revolution with Kanika Chawla

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Sherrell's Top 5 (#3): How one of China’s biggest tech companies is tackling carbon removal with Xu Hao

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Sherrell's Top 5 (#4): The multidimensional magic of modern maps | Peter Wilczynski

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Sherrell's Top 5 (#5): How to pull the emergency brake on global warming with Mohamed A. Sultan

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How to power the world – and accelerate clean energy with Kimiko Hirata

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How to pick the right path forward with AI with Alvin W. Graylin and Manoush Zomorodi

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Is your electric bill about to go up? with Asim Z. Haque

14

Power Without a Playbook with Kristen Gonzalez

15

What does the Cloud drink? with Sarah Houston

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The Data Center Next Door with Dr. Sacoby Wilson

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How a wildlife conservationist is saving animals with online streaming

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How to make AI worth your time with Max Mullen | from WorkLife with Molly Graham

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The past and future of clean transportation with Doreen Orishaba, Daniel Sperling, and Gil Tal

20

What big oil is hiding from you with Cindy Taff and Stephanie Honchell Smith

21

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

23

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)

25

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

27

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

29

Meet NEO, your robot butler in training | Bernt Børnich

30

Everything you need to know about AI agents | Swami Sivasubramanian

31

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

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

33

How satellites are supporting farmers across Africa | Catherine Nakalembe

34

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

35

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

36

Inside India's astonishing solar revolution | Kanika Chawla

37

What Earth in 2125 could look like | Iseult Gillespie

38

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

39

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

40

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

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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

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

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How Texas became America’s biggest producer of wind energy

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Inside a dark web kill list | Carl Miller

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

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

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The AI revolution is underhyped | Eric Schmidt

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

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A concrete plan for sustainable cement | Ryan Gilliam

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

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Why your phone battery gets worse over time | George Zaidan

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Will AI make humans extinct? | Yoshua Bengio

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Is AI your next hire? | Fixable

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

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

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

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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

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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

129

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

133

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

137

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

140

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

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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

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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

185

Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker

186

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

191

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

192

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

193

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

195

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

204

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

209

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

215

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

219

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

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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

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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

246

5 ethical principles for digitizing humanitarian aid | Aarathi Krishnan

247

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

249

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

251

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

252

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

259

Your self-driving robotaxi is almost here | Aicha Evans

260

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

261

How AI can help shatter barriers to equality | Jamila Gordon

262

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

264

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

266

Listen now: WorkLife season 5

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The promise of quantum computers | Matt Langione

268

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

269

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

271

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

272

The life-changing power of assistive technologies | Jane Velkovski

273

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

274

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

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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

279

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