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They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this. We stigmatize mistakes.

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that most doctors don't like talking about, and pharmaceutical companies like talking about even less. It's for the number needed to treat.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

But the same kind of concept applies to drone delivery. So companies like Zipline and Wing are using dock drones to make it safer and faster

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

and The Washington Post. Soon after, I’m starting and running companies. First Politico, then Axios. So what the hell happened?

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

Do you see the pattern here? We let social media companies take over our kids' social lives,

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

lives and their mental health. We let EdTech companies take over our kids' schools,

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

than good. Now, AI companies are coming for their relationships to be their friends, their

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

when it comes to children, these companies have earned our distrust. Techno-skepticism means that from now

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

We have the hallways of Congress, and the boardrooms of insurance companies that try to figure out how to pay for it. The ethicists and epidemiologists

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And so when you ask me about competition, I think there are a host of companies that are in the level-two-plus and level three.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

For 15 years, I worked on building AI. I started one of the early AI companies. I raised a quarter of a billion dollars to do it,

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

As a VP of People and multi-time HR executive, I've led many teams and companies through burnout. I've also gone through it myself.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

We need people to really invest. I'm talking about the sports companies, the medical institutions and other foundations.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Now, these richer brain signatures might be why recruiters from Fortune 500 companies evaluating candidates

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

It's also very expensive to make. Entire companies are built around creating it, owning their distribution channels,

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

We heard about this already. But actually, companies could employ this AI to distinguish those who are really passionate about the role

What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED · TED

to building growth strategies for the world's most influential companies. I've been at this for a while, and I've seen most of the big tech shifts.

Love, Trust and Marketing in the Age of AI | Amaryllis Liampoti | TED · TED

it just costs too much to do the clinical trials, and companies can't expect to make back the costs in sales. Instead, we focus on new drugs for profitable diseases,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

DF: That's exactly right. And in fact, companies will oftentimes consider 15, 20 or even 30 diseases for a given drug,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

For example, what if oil and gas companies were releasing huge amounts of methane as they drill for the oil and gas that they want to send to Europe?

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

which today remains one of the largest in the world, companies all around the world are going to have to cut their methane emissions,

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

For example, companies could be held to a standard of as little as two-tenths of one percent of their production.

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

How are we going to know that oil and gas companies all around the world are actually complying with this?

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

And we’ve got momentum. More than 50 companies, representing 40 percent of global oil and gas production,

The Best Way to Lower Earth's Temperature — Fast | Daniel Zavala-Araiza | TED · TED

Some of those businesses we help to buy and convert to employee-owned companies, some of those businesses we start ourselves.

A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TED · TED

So a lot will now depend upon the key decisions made in the US and China and in the companies in both places. The reason I focus on US and China

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

betting on China as the only economy or government worth pandering to. Tech companies that once partnered with the military had decided that national security was someone else's problem.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

In 2012, tech companies understood the amazing commercial potential of this nascent technology,

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

And this is growing. And these companies have a stated goal of building machines that will be smarter than us,

The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED · TED

but stealing the work of the world's creators to build it is not. There are three key things that AI companies need to build their models, three key resources -- people, compute and data.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and data to train the models on. AI companies spend vast sums on the first two, sometimes a million dollars per engineer

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

But they expect to take the third resource, training data, for free. Right now, many AI companies train on creative work they haven't paid for or even asked permission to use.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

we can build a better generative AI ecosystem that works for everyone, both the AI companies themselves and the creators, without whose work these models would not exist.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

without whose work these models would not exist. Most AI companies today do not license the majority of their training data. They use web scrapers to find, download

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that generative AI competes with its training data. This is not the narrative that AI companies like to portray. We like to talk about democratization, about letting more people be creative.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and AI training involves copying. Here, in the US, many AI companies argue that training AI falls under the fair use copyright exception,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

trial a four-day work week some companies are leaning on staff to leave the office earlier or offering

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and there are currently around 30 ongoing lawsuits brought by rights holders against AI companies, which will help to address this question.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

they license that work. Now AI companies have a bunch of reasons why this shouldn’t apply to them. There’s the fair use legal exception that I’ve already mentioned.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

is preposterous. AI companies also argue that licensing their training data would be impractical.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

Creators still want to get paid, even if the payments are small. AI companies also argue that they simply use too much data for licensing to even be feasible.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that you can access with permission. You can license data from media companies. There have been 27 major deals

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

There have been 27 major deals between AI companies and rights holders in the last year alone, and that's to say nothing of the smaller ones that don't get reported.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that it's possible to license all your data is that there are multiple companies doing it already. I know, because I've done it myself.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that trained on licensed music. A number of other companies have done the same thing, and I founded Fairly Trained in order to highlight this fact,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and I founded Fairly Trained in order to highlight this fact, and these companies. Fairly Trained is a nonprofit that certifies generative AI companies

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and these companies. Fairly Trained is a nonprofit that certifies generative AI companies that don't train on copyrighted work without a license.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

that don't train on copyrighted work without a license. We launched in January of this year, and we've already certified 18 companies. Now these companies take a variety of approaches

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

We launched in January of this year, and we've already certified 18 companies. Now these companies take a variety of approaches to licensing their training data.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

mostly from government documents and records. We have companies who have paid upfront fees for their data. We have companies who share their revenue with their data providers.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

We have companies who have paid upfront fees for their data. We have companies who share their revenue with their data providers. There is no one answer to the exact specifics

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

somehow stifles innovation, that it's only the big AI companies that can afford these huge upfront licensing fees.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

It should come as no surprise that the general public do not agree with AI companies about what they can train their models on.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

One poll from the AI Policy Institute, in April, asked people about the common policy among AI companies of training on publicly available data.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

The same poll went on to ask whether AI companies should compensate data providers. 74 percent said yes, and only nine percent said no.

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and without pitting the world's creators against you. So I hope that more AI companies will follow the example set by those we've certified at Fairly Trained,

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

and license all their training data. I hope that employees at these companies will demand this of their employers. And I hope that everyone who uses generative AI

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

Both start-up founders, both single, trying to figure out our lives, our companies, this new city together.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

this simple slow ritual gives workers such a boost that some Swedish companies put regular fika breaks in their

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Yet today, high engagement numbers is what we praise all AI companion companies for. Another thing I found really concerning is building AI companions for kids.

Can AI Companions Help Heal Loneliness? | Eugenia Kuyda | TED · TED

Honestly, I have some sympathy. In fact, every time one of these companies issues a new model, I get more sympathetic.

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at improving learning outcomes for their students? We partnered with private companies, asking, which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs?

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth | TED · TED

we need some way, you know, maybe the companies themselves put together the right framework or the right sort of model for this, but we need some way

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you know, I think if you could go sit in a meeting in OpenAI or other companies, you'd be like, oh, these people are really kind of caring about this.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

financial sector and crypto and uh fossil fuel companies and others he's also intending to um roll over the

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

macroeconomic environment is worse than it was before um companies are trading at a much higher multiple um you've got

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Biden with the heads of the seven systemically important us AI companies uh he'll probably also stop the nent us

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

into good dirt. Jasmine says companies pay for waste management anyway, they

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And maybe there are some aligned interests, like, having legislation that makes it easier for companies to expand dynamically and so forth.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

And in this case, the means of communication are these big Silicon Valley companies. And why it's such a, you know,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

They would have said two things. One, these companies are reacting against years of sort of progressive culture that they didn’t like.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

In your talk, you so powerfully talked about how these companies are extracting our data. It's surveillance capitalism,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

The thing is about it, is that first off, it's ownership, right? Who are these companies owned by? What are their values?

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

none of those things are true, right? There are none of these companies where you could say, yes, this person is the Nelson Mandela of the tech industry,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

CC: But they're not trustworthy. Who's trustworthy in the AI space then, out of these companies? Who is being transparent,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

CA: Obviously, you know, the stated policies of all of the companies is that they want to honor users' interests.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

you know, it’s power. This is power being concentrated in the hands of a very few companies, which are now aligned with a rogue state.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

So I started asking more questions. Physicians, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, you know, there must be someone working in our system

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That's the practice. And then I speak to founders of AI companion companies, and they're building these AI sex therapy bots,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

I'm going to lay off 30 percent of my staff, which some companies are doing, recently I've talked to 50 companies in the last two months

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

which some companies are doing, recently I've talked to 50 companies in the last two months about how they were implementing,

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

MZ: So play with the models, see what they're like, know what these companies are talking about. Do you recommend that?

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

I got myself a Commodore 64 and worked on machine translation. I built a couple of AI companies, I sold one of them to Uber. I love AI, but right now I'm worried.

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

in the CBS "60 Minutes" interview that he did a couple of days ago. I think that the companies themselves want to see some kind of regulation. I think it’s a very complicated dance to get everybody on the same page,

The Urgent Risks of Runaway AI — and What to Do about Them | Gary Marcus | TED · TED

of creating unprecedented concentrations of wealth and power locked up into a few companies. One way to think about it is who would you trust

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

the more ahead you are in the race. And we're seeing whistleblowers at AI companies forfeit millions of dollars of stock options

Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation | Tristan Harris | TED · TED

First, extreme-scale AI models are so expensive to train, and only a few tech companies can afford to do so. So we already see the concentration of power.

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

But what's worse for AI safety, we are now at the mercy of those few tech companies because researchers in the larger community

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

to help solve AI governance with policymakers around the world and cutting-edge technology companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. How?

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

And for the first time, the FDA mandated the pharma companies show that their drugs were not harmful to consumers, which seems kind of obvious, but somebody had to figure that out.

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that we can make that type of change quickly. CA: And you're working with some of the companies in this room even, who are welcoming graduates from your program?

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

to embed a Girls Who Code classroom in their office. CA: And you have some stories back from some of those companies that when you mix in more gender balance

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

We own the Internet, and we should be building the companies of tomorrow. And I think when companies have diverse teams,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

and we should be building the companies of tomorrow. And I think when companies have diverse teams, and they have incredible women that are part of their engineering teams,

Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani

where organizations, companies in a competitive situation can be driven to do things that no individual running those companies would by themselves do.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

companies in a competitive situation can be driven to do things that no individual running those companies would by themselves do. I was really struck by this talk,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

that are going to power so much of the future economy. And it's all by companies that are in competition with each other. How will we avoid the situation where someone is getting a lead,

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

The same is true in our workplaces. In the companies I consult with, I often see flawless execution cultures which leaders foster to encourage great work.

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and not try new things, so companies struggle to innovate and improve, and they fall behind.

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

doesn't have a huge impact on other people. I would say to companies, this is not our first rodeo, people. We just need you to be authentic and real and say ...

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED