From the construction of virtual realities to the internet of things to the watches on our wrists—technology's influence is everywhere. Its role in our lives is evolving fast, and we're faced with riveting questions and tough challenges that sit at the intersection of technology and humanity. Listen in every Friday, with host, journalist Sherrell Dorsey, as TED speakers explore the way tech shapes how we think about society, science, design, business, and more.
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How teach students in an increasingly-AI world | Randi Williams and Matt Wu
Technology has always shaped education, but nothing is disrupting teaching like artificial intelligence. In this episode, Sherrell reflects on how learning might change i
Nov 13 28 min
How Community Notes reduce viral misinformation | Jay Baxter and Keith Coleman
Community Notes on X started with a wild idea: Instead of tech companies deciding what's true, what if you let people fact-check each other? Keith Coleman and Jay Baxter,
Nov 6 28 min
How to make the internet fun again with Steve Huffman and Michael Sun
From Hotmail to Yahoo! to AOL instant messenger, online chat space has transformed throughout the years. Now, there’s Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more AI agents vying f
Oct 30 29 min
Democracy in the Age of AI (1/5): How AI could hack democracy | Lawrence Lessig
Does AI pose a threat to democracy? Law professor Lawrence Lessig dissects how this emerging technology could influence democratic institutions, warning that we’ve alread
Oct 26 23 min
Democracy in the Age of AI (2/5): When AI can fake reality, who can you trust? | Sam Gregory
We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss reality, says technologist and human rights advocate Sam Gregory. What happe
Oct 26 15 min
Democracy in the Age of AI (3/5): Your creative superpowers can help protect democracy | Sofia Ongele
"Democracy is more fun and inviting when you take it into your own hands," says creator and activist Sofia Ongele. Sharing how she's using coding and social media to defe
Oct 26 12 min
Democracy in the Age of AI (4/5): How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner
No one truly understands AI, not even experts, says Helen Toner, an AI policy researcher and former board member of OpenAI. But that doesn't mean we can't govern it. She
Oct 26 16 min
Democracy in the Age of AI (5/5): How AI and democracy can fix each other | Divya Siddarth
We don't have to sacrifice our freedom for the sake of technological progress, says social technologist Divya Siddarth. She shares how a group of people helped retrain on
Oct 26 12 min
The unexpected wonders of my son's short life | James G. Robinson | Your Body on Tech
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 profou
Oct 23 51 min
The case for making art in a crisis | Yiyun Kang | Your Body on Tech
We have more data than any generation in history, yet reality has never felt harder to grasp. Artist Yiyun Kang is on a mission to translate the invisible crises of our t
Oct 16 43 min
Can Ozempic end addiction? | Dhruv Khullar | Your Body on Tech
What if GLP-1s like Ozempic could do more than just tip the scales? Physician Dhruv Khullar traces the winding path of the "moderation molecule" — from a discovery in Gil
Oct 9 47 min
Why I’m obsessed with health wearables (and you should be too) | Michael Snyder | Your Body on Tech
Genome researcher Michael Snyder believes health wearables, such as smart watches and glucose monitors, can transform medicine, shifting from reactive to predictive. (In
Oct 2 49 min
Robots! (1/5): Meet NEO, your robot butler in training | Bernt Børnich
What if doing your chores were as easy as flipping a switch? In this talk and live demo, roboticist and founder of 1X Bernt Børnich introduces NEO, a humanoid robot desig
Sep 28 15 min
Robots! (2/5): How you could see inside your body — with a micro-robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari
Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, mode
Sep 28 12 min
Robots! (3/5): Next up for AI? Dancing robots | Catie Cuan
Would you tango with a robot? Inviting us into the fascinating world of dancing machines, robot choreographer Catie Cuan highlights why teaching robots to move with grace
Sep 28 11 min
Robots! (4/5): 7 new species of robot that jump, dance — and walk on water | Dennis Hong
More than a decade ago, roboticist Dennis Hong debuted a new generation of cutting-edge robots. Now he's back to reveal how his lab at UCLA has eclipsed its own achieveme
Sep 28 17 min
Robots! (5/5): Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution | Emma Hart
What if robots could build and optimize themselves -- with little to no help from humans? Computer scientist Emma Hart is working on a new technology that could make "art
Sep 28 10 min
Your vaccine questions deserve real answers | Kizzmekia Corbett | Your Body on Tech
What good is a vaccine people don't trust? Immunologist and TED Fellow Kizzmekia Corbett co-developed the first COVID-19 vaccine to enter clinical trials — but she'll tel
Sep 25 48 min
What we're getting wrong about teens and tech | Candice Odgers | Your Body on Tech
Trigger warning - this episode contains mention of suicide and severe depression.
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developme
Sep 18 55 min
What sitting all day does to your brain and body | Keith Diaz | Your Body on Tech
Can a five-minute walk change how you feel all day? Exercise scientist Keith Diaz shows how your body is built for the kind of movement that modern life has quietly erase
Sep 11 47 min
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3x pre-roll ads, 15 seconds of real intro, followed by 4x more long ads? Are you kidding me.
I respect TED and benefit from their broad scope of content. That does not justify packing this many ads into your podcasts. Pushing out ad-farm episodes tarnishes the journalists’ reputations, and makes their guests look like they’re being milked for cash imo.
I find it insulting, as if they don’t value my time, or think their podcast is more valuable than it is. A sub-20 minute podcast made of clips from existing TED content does not deserve 7 long ads in the first 5 minutes.
Innerspectrum · Mar 2025
I don’t know why some of the TED audio podcasts feel the need to have random background music - which sometimes feels somewhat incongruous to the content that it is accompanying.
You have some good short pieces but you should really stop putting a music track onto it when the person is talking. It’s one thing when music is added to narrative fiction podcasts but it feels very out of place on your fact-based show.
curtsnrt · Feb 2022
The people that come on this show are highly intelligent and not afraid to express there personality,creating a unique atmosphere and what they talk about is even more interesting
34673826383928102947 · Jul 2019
The episode about NFTs doesn’t really address the criticism against NFTs in any meaningful capacity. They don’t talk about how many artists have had NFTs made of their content without their knowledge or consent. They don’t talk about how many people have lost access to the images tied to their NFTs. They don’t talk about the energy consumption of crypto mining. I was expecting them to actually talk about the specific technological details of how NFTs and blockchain technology work, but it sounds more like an advertisement disguised as a podcast episode. “Folding Ideas” on YouTube has a great video about NFTs.
Pixelated_Prophecies · Jan 2022
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