Kriti Sharma creates AI technology to help address some of the toughest social challenges of our time -- from domestic violence to sexual health and inequality.
Dr. Gregory Stock's levelheaded look at the hotpoints where tech and ethics connect (or short circuit) have made him a popular guest on TV and radio. He directs the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at UCLA.
About this event: Join us for an evening of entertainment, great conversation and networking, while experts in diverse fields - visual arts, ethics, business, among others - share ideas worth spreading on living inspired, purposeful lives.
Event details: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · March 11, 2017
About this event: Dangerously Ethical aims to present and analyze some of the aspects of our current (r)evolution of converging technologies focusing on ethics as happiness. Happiness as for Aristotele who considered eudaimonia (happiness) a much richer state than what currently is for us. A state that involves living well and doing well; something that last for ...
Gloria Kasang Bulus has dedicated her life to promoting environmental ethics, sustainable use of natural resources and preserving the natural environment for future generations.
In June, Stanford biologist Tony Wyss-Coray took the TED stage to describe no less than “an absolutely amazing development in aging research” (How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really). His research has shown that proteins found in the blood of younger mice can dramatically reverse the effects of aging when given to older mice. The ...
Dan Reisel studies the biology of change, including our ability to rewire our own brains. And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn't we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If the brain can grow new neural pathways after an injury ... could we help the brain re-grow ...
Krista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "On Being," which takes up the great, animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live?
Iyad Rahwan's work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, with a focus on collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation and the social aspects of artificial intelligence.
About this event: 1 Re-imagining school - Reinventing Education
2 How to put people before yourself (servant leadership)
3 How to be a “Team Human” in the digital world
4. Social Media, Mobile Technologies and their Transformational Power
5. AI Ethics - Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Society
Event details: Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India · November 22, 2019
About this event: All the event is focused on ideas that young people need to build their future. Entrepreneurship, innovation, education, creativity, ethics, art...All this ideas with the energy of a TEDxYOUTH event
Event details: Barcelona, Barcelona (ca), Spain · November 16, 2014
About this event: A discussion exploring the implication of diet for health, environment, sustainability and society, and how these balance with animal ethics.
Event details: cape town, Western Cape, South Africa · July 31, 2014
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing machines, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is working on something a bit different: robots with uncertainty. Hear his vision for human-compatible AI that can solve problems using common sense, altr...
About this event: This year's theme, “This or That,” challenges speakers and audience members to consider how the polarization around us shapes our thoughts, actions, and values – and perhaps more importantly, where we go from here. TEDxACU 2021 will present ideas and pose big questions about relationships, science, art, families, ethics, education, and much more.
Event details: Abilene, Texas, United States · December 3, 2021
Yesterday, TED posted a jaw-dropping talk from Paul Root Wolpe that rounds up new bio-engineering experiments, most involving animals, that push our current ethical systems to their limits. From bioengineered glow-in-the-dark pets to supersized salmon, from ratbots to the mouse that grows a human ear -- Wolpe asks us to think deeply about wh...
About this event: A two sessions events with 12 live speakers and 2 TED talks: music, medicine, journalism, technology & ethics, Creativity, Business and much more in the most energetic event in Italy! People, from speakers to partner, staff & team & audience, are no longer the same after our event!
Event details: BERGAMO, Lombardia, Italy · May 14, 2017
About this event: The New Futurism - On the 4th February 2012 join TEDxMerseyside to explore themes such as rights of passage, use of bio materials, ethics in art, inspiring our work life, innovations for learning and the effects of non-verbal communication.
Event details: Merseyside, United Kingdom · February 4, 2012
Professor Sajay Samuel's proposal to reduce the burden of student loans is part of his larger preoccupation with thinking beyond the conventional categories of economics and ecology.
Sister True Dedication is a Zen Buddhist nun ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh, the editor of several of his books and a leading voice in a new generation of young monastics.
In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, the bedside chat, the power of informed observation.
About this event: The world is changing fast. Often so fast that we don’t take the time to think about what kind of society and future we actually want to build.
Politics has become disconnected from fact. Innovation is pursued without consideration of ethics. Around the world, we are building walls instead of bridges.
New Rules asks:
• How can we be more empa...
Event details: Washington, District of Columbia, United States · October 21, 2016
About this event: In a world where digital is woven into every aspect of our lives, change is constant and the pace of innovation cotinues unabat- ed, our values, ethics, structure and purposes will be highly chal- lenged.
Therefore, we need to ask: What possibilities, opportunities and threats will come with tomorrow’s technological advancements? It is time to r...
Event details: Berlin, Berlin, Germany · October 22, 2020