Eric S. Rosenthal, MD, draws on Massachusetts’ revolutionary history to explore a new revolution in digital health and AI within medicine and neuroscience. Massachusetts was not merely the place where a new government began; it was a place where ordinary…

What will Boston look like over the next 250 years?

In this conversation, veteran Boston Globe business reporter John Chesto explores the forces shaping the city's future—from AI and robotics to transportation, real estate, journalism, and economic development.…

Every minute, somewhere in the world, a fall takes a life — and many are preventable. The data that could predict our decline is already streaming from our phones and wearables; the problem, says neuroscientist and inventor Dr. Cori Lathan, is that we've…

Rules are the foundation of democracy. But what happens when they become too complex for people, officials, and even institutions to apply? Drawing on her childhood in East Germany, the Dutch childcare-benefits scandal and her work with Rulemapping, Ina Remmers…

Who really decides what AI becomes? While governments debate regulation and companies race to build more powerful systems, communities are already shaping how artificial intelligence is adopted, trusted, and governed. Drawing on a decade spent building AI…

What should America strive to become over the next 250 years? Former U.S. Treasurer Rosa Rios, Chair of the America250 Commission, reflects on the nation's past while looking boldly toward its future. From her family's immigrant story to leading the national…

Europe has spent two decades being told it is behind in AI. Entrepreneur Alexander Woellwarth-Lauterburg, who started inside the hidden human supply chain of the AI industry, argues we are measuring the wrong race entirely — and that the real competition…

AI is not just changing tasks — it is changing how organizations hold together. Florian Bankoley argues that hierarchy was our old answer to complexity, but AI forces us to invent a new one. As intelligence and decision support spread across institutions…

We still think of digital technologies as products, but over the last couple of decades, first slowly then rapidly, they have become architectures, virtual spaces within which we live and work, and whose rules are established by their developers and owners.…

What does it take to stay in control of your life online? AI ethicist Jen Golbeck and TED Fellow Shalini Kantayya discuss how algorithms, data collection and AI shape the choices you make every day. They explore whether it’s possible to use the internet without…

America is returning to the moon, but there is a threat to that mission that almost no one is talking about. Tyler Bernstein reveals the vulnerability hiding in plain sight, and the surprisingly compact solution he is building to solve it.

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Control is an illusion — and the leaders who chase it are holding their teams back. Workplace culture expert Jessica Kriegel explores the tactic that leaders who want to achieve extraordinary results should try instead. (Recorded at TEDxSouthlake on November…

In this talk, Peter Fousek blends personal storytelling with professional insight to question how housing has shifted from a basic human need to a profit-driven commodity. He explores why prioritizing accessibility, safety, stability, tenant rights, and responsible…

Humans aren't just social — we're ultrasocial, wired like bees and ants for deep connection. So what happens when smartphones take over childhood, tablets replace textbooks and AI companies infiltrate our kids’ lives? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays…

When James G. Robinson's son Nadav was born with a rare heart defect, he feared the worst. What he didn't anticipate were the moments of unexpected wonder. In this profound talk, Robinson traces five years of impossible medical odds, a genetic discovery so…

In her talk, Nehir explores π not only as a mathematical constant, but as a symbol of the cycles that shape our lives. Pi originates from one of the most fundamental forms in nature: the circle. It describes the ratio between a circle’s circumference and…

In her talk, Angelina explores how our ideas about robots have long been shaped by fear, control, and domination. Drawing on science fiction, mythology, and personal experience, she argues that the stories we tell about machines often create a cycle in which…

What if the biggest breakthrough in sustainable construction isn't a new material—but using far less of it?

MIT structural engineer Caitlin Mueller explores how architecture, engineering, and computational design can dramatically reduce the environmental…

The Chorallaries of MIT perform at TEDxMIT with the beloved Engineers' Drinking Song, and Me The Machine (opb. Imogen Heap). The Chorallaries of MIT are MIT’s first mixed-voice a cappella group! They perform in the Boston/Cambridge area, tour the country…