Your brain is the next tech frontier

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We're entering a new era of brain monitoring and enhancement, but what are the ethical implications? This hour, TED speakers explore the potential and pitfalls of merging our minds with machines. Guests include legal scholar and AI ethicist Nita Farahany, neurotechnologist and entrepreneur Conor Russomanno, neuroscientist and physician Sergiu Pașca and sous chef Kate Faulkner.

Original broadcast date: January 26, 2024.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.8	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:07.2	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.6	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:10.3	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.4	Around the world.
0:13.4	To understand who we are.
0:15.3	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.4	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:22.3	Challenge you.
0:23.2	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.6	And even change you.
0:26.7	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.9	Yes.
0:29.8	Do you feel that way?
0:31.6	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.9	From TED and NPR.
0:38.9	I'm Minnuchia Somerodi.
0:46.4	In 2017, Nita Farahani and her family went through a devastating experience.
0:49.4	And it's something she's okay talking about now.
0:54.7	Yeah, so we suffered the loss of our second daughter, Callista.
1:00.1	She fell ill with RSV.
	...

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