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Ethics

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Ethics.

Video playlists about Ethics

Curator's Picks: Top 10 TED Talks of 2017

10 talks • 3h 10m

The most notable talks of 2017, chosen by TED Curator Chris Anderson.

Alternate timelines of the future

7 talks • 1h 34m

What could be, may be with these talks exploring the implications of tech we're developing now.

Faith in the modern world

9 talks • 2h 25m

An exploration of faith’s place in our current, tumultuous times.

New tech, new ethics

9 talks • 2h 34m

With technical advancement comes great ethical responsibility. In these talks, amazing, life-altering feats of science make us ask: How could we mess this up?

Talks about Ethics

Juan Enriquez

How technology changes our sense of right and wrong

Posted Feb 2021

Angélique Parisot-Potter

How to be an upstander instead of a bystander

Posted Dec 2020

Abigail Disney

Dignity isn't a privilege. It's a worker's right

Posted Sep 2020

Erez Yoeli

How to motivate people to do good for others

Posted Dec 2018

Dolly Chugh

How to let go of being a "good" person — and become a better person

Posted Nov 2018

Will MacAskill

What are the most important moral problems of our time?

Posted Sep 2018

Iyad Rahwan

What moral decisions should driverless cars make?

Posted Aug 2017

Stuart Russell

3 principles for creating safer AI

Posted May 2017

His Holiness Pope Francis

Why the only future worth building includes everyone

Posted Apr 2017

Robb Willer

How to have better political conversations

Posted Jan 2017

Sharon Brous

It's time to reclaim religion

Posted Dec 2016

Zeynep Tufekci

Machine intelligence makes human morals more important

Posted Oct 2016

Jennifer Kahn

Gene editing can now change an entire species — forever

Posted May 2016

Aspen Baker

A better way to talk about abortion

Posted Jul 2015

Ash Beckham

When to take a stand — and when to let it go

Posted Jul 2015

Leana Wen

What your doctor won’t disclose

Posted Nov 2014

See all 28 talks on Ethics

Exclusive articles about Ethics

Opinion: Should we use gene editing to produce disease-free babies? A scientist who helped discover CRISPR weighs in.

Researchers recently reported that they were able to edit human embryos to fix a dangerous mutation. The technology is inching closer to reality, so we need to take a stand, say...

The promising and perilous science of gene editing

CRISPR-Cas9 could change the human genome for generations. Here’s why its inventor is trying to press pause. Should scientists edit the human genome, striking out undesirable t...

Need to know: About Facebook’s emotional contagion study

Ethicists are concerned about the recently published details of a mood alteration experiment conducted on Facebook users. Ready to go beyond the headlines? 5 primary sources wor...

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