👁3 possible futures for AI — which will we choose?
🧠Manoush Zomorodi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣After decades working in technology across both the US and China, Alvin W. Graylin sees three possible paths for the future of AI: one where tech giants create a class of trillionaires, one where competition escalates into war or one where humanity builds and shares this technology for the common good. In conversation with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi, Graylin cuts through the hype to clarify how we choose the right path.
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#AI #technology #future #policy #machine_learning

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👁Why can't we better prepare for extreme weather?
🧠Catherine Nakalembe
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Thanks to advanced technology, we can now see droughts and crop failures months before they hit. So why are millions of people still going hungry? TED Fellow Catherine Nakalembe, director of the NASA Harvest program in Africa, exposes the blind spots that keep life-saving climate intelligence from reaching the communities it's designed to protect — and shares how to turn early warning into early action.
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#Countdown #climate_change #agriculture #AI #food #farming

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👁How a dung beetle inspired a better AI model
🧠Nanjira Sambuli
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today's AI evolution, asking: When tech giants battle for dominance, who gets trampled in the process? She introduces a new ethical compass for AI, showing how people across the continent are charting a different path for the future of tech.
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#AI #technology #Africa #innovation #humanity #community #software

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👁Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question
🧠Vinciane Beauchêne
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vinciane Beauchene challenges some commonly held assumptions about how AI will transform the workplace, sharing a blueprint for leaders to design organizations where people can focus on what truly makes a difference.
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#AI #work #technology #business #humanity #future

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👁What ancestral intelligence can teach us about AI
🧠Nanjira Sambuli
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today's AI evolution, asking: When tech giants battle for dominance, who gets trampled in the process? She introduces a new ethical compass for AI, showing how people across the continent are charting a different path for the future of tech.
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#AI #technology #Africa #innovation #humanity #community #software

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👁How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs
🧠Llion Jones
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Llion Jones cowrote "Attention Is All You Need," the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI revolution. Now he warns that the industry that grew out of this breakthrough is stifling the next one. Learn why the current corporate arms race is killing true innovation and how we can get back to bold exploration.
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#technology #AI #computers #machine_learning #competition

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👁The AI-generated intimacy crisis
🧠Bryony Cole
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Tonight, millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion. But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expert Bryony Cole offers three questions to ask yourself if you’re already intimate with AI, laying out a playbook for synthetic companionship that doesn’t hide you from the messiness of human life — but prepares you for it instead.
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#AI #relationships #love #culture #technology #humanity

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👁What you know that AI doesn’t
🧠Priyanka Vergadia
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣AI is good at seeing patterns, but it’s humans who figure out what to do next, says technologist Priyanka Vergadia. She shares three stories of human excellence sparked by AI insights and offers a pathway to identify and cultivate your irreplaceable qualities, turning the AI revolution from a threat into an opportunity.
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#AI #work #career #technology #collaboration

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👁How to spot fake AI photos
🧠Hany Farid
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣How do you know if that shocking photo in your feed is real, or just another AI fake? Digital forensics expert Hany Farid explains how he helps journalists, courts and governments find structural errors in AI-generated images, offering four practical tips everyday individuals can use when facing the internet’s war on reality.
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#AI #technology #photography #corruption #media #future #trust

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👁I'll probably lose my job to AI. Here's why that's OK
🧠Megan J. McArdle
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Artificial intelligence could cost many of us our careers — but that doesn’t mean we should stop its development, says journalist Megan J. McArdle. As she watches AI encroach on her own craft, she shares a fresh take on the 19th-century Luddites, who tried to destroy machines that would upend their trade. Looking back, McArdle reframes today’s fears with a poignant question: If we halt progress to protect the present, what might we be stealing from the future?
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#AI #artificial_intelligence #technology #work #career #society #innovation #future

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