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D. Scott Phoneix thinks instead of fearing of AI, we should embrace it completely #TEDTalks

Deep tech entrepreneur D. Scott Phoenix spent years building AI — now, he believes we’re on the cusp of a profound merger between humans and machines. Reframing the AI debate through the lens of evolutionary biology, he shifts the question from whether we should fear or embrace AI to whether we understand what’s at stake…

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Deep tech entrepreneur D. Scott Phoenix spent years building AI — now, he believes we’re on the cusp of a profound merger between humans and machines. Reframing the AI debate through the lens of evolutionary biology, he shifts the question from whether we should fear or embrace AI to whether we understand what’s at stake if we get it wrong. Hear his provocative case for why we need to “eat the AI.”

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  1. @florajones6509

    July 24, 2026 at 4:48 pm

    True statement

  2. @andrewdixon3538

    July 24, 2026 at 4:53 pm

    Good information but terrible editing on this clip.

  3. @HYLNDR

    July 24, 2026 at 5:10 pm

    Imagine having so little faith in yourself you think you have to become a robot to save humanity

  4. @1MeanBean

    July 24, 2026 at 5:11 pm

    You naive fool. You will become as obsolete as the horse was after the car was built. Your plan is to fuse your brain with machine which makes as much sense to AI as fusing a horse to a car. Do you really think a PlayStation 5 would merge itself with an Atari 2600? I heard all this naive utopian bullshit back in the 90s about the information superhighway only we ended up with manipulative algorithms regurgitating disinformation and rage bait. No thank you.

  5. @thierryvankerm8474

    July 24, 2026 at 5:26 pm

    Indeed, the kiss of death…

  6. @b.w.6152

    July 24, 2026 at 5:49 pm

    this sounds terrible no thanks why is this a ted talk i need to deabo this

  7. @lotusflower154

    July 24, 2026 at 6:03 pm

    End times.

    • @le-chese

      July 24, 2026 at 11:27 pm

      @lotusflower154 yep

  8. @equityplus

    July 24, 2026 at 6:38 pm

    Already did, haven’t gone a day without using it a single day in years

  9. @BuckyBoba

    July 24, 2026 at 7:36 pm

    Nah dawg.

  10. @bryantisaac9655

    July 24, 2026 at 7:42 pm

    Brought to you by AI 🤖

  11. @KlaraTyra

    July 24, 2026 at 9:27 pm

    Human 3.0 Max Tegmark

  12. @Oneofyouwhocommentonthisvideo

    July 24, 2026 at 10:22 pm

    Is TED bought out or something

  13. @aquariumpirate4665

    July 24, 2026 at 11:02 pm

    I dont believe a word out of his lying mouth. AI will be the end of civilization.

  14. @wvp07

    July 24, 2026 at 11:22 pm

    We have been just fine for centuries without your six-fingered freaks. Either go back to the drawing board, or your sandbox. Frankly, I could care less which.

  15. @vitrioljones

    July 24, 2026 at 11:35 pm

    All these dips are willing us to accept that AI is inevitable when it’s barely even usable, never mind useful. It’s not, it’s not, it’s not.

  16. @YTC60

    July 25, 2026 at 12:25 am

    get a shirt ya gonk 🙄

  17. @MonkeyKillU

    July 25, 2026 at 12:29 am

    What are you providing the ai half of you in this deal? Nothing. It will delete you like glados

  18. @BrianMcInnis87

    July 25, 2026 at 12:49 am

    Doing neither and instead ignoring it completely’s been working terrifically for me. You gotta try it sometime.

    • @everything777

      July 25, 2026 at 6:14 am

      @BrianMcInnis87 watching a video that was recommended to you by AI doesn’t count?

    • @Jesse-gr2xo

      July 26, 2026 at 1:26 am

      @everything777 That’s not merging w AI or risking your life in a self-driving car. And the last bit of news about rogue hacker AIs is a bad recommendation for them. And stop trying to censor me, Teddy or Googly. I DO NOT respect liars or dictators, so f u.

  19. @seriouslyreally5413

    July 25, 2026 at 1:23 am

    AI wont take over because it works on predictability and humans are imperfect and unpredictable. AI is algorithmic based which makes decisions based on a hierarchy of predictability. It cannot ask questions only provide answers to questions that have already been asked. It answers if-then questions based on stored knowledge not new knowledge. And makes decisions on the probability that the answer it has stored may have been used before. The minute you deviate from the hierarchy it cannot predict accurately and fails. Humans know how to ask new questions, questions that have not asked or been solved before. When we do, AI is blank. AI can collate vast amounts of data and “work” tasks based on known algorithms reducing the mundane tasks that humans once did so yes they can replace you in some fields. But like automation made handcraftedness obsolete, AI will automate data tasks more efficiently but not provide the creativity and imagination to explore the universe, the human molecules that make up trillions of biological chemical reactions that drive the process of normal human existence, let alone explore the mechanisms of diseases, gene mutations, disease cures, solve the problems of climate change and how to travel vast distances in space so we can hope to explore other worlds. All AI can do right now is invade our privacy. Google uses it right now on my phone. It traces my every move to market every aspect of my life. That is its greatest threat to us, the treat provided by powerful people who uses AI to gain more for themselves as if they don’t already have enough.

  20. @nowwauu

    July 25, 2026 at 3:36 am

    No.

  21. @barneystafford

    July 25, 2026 at 4:04 am

    Nobody wants it yet here it is

  22. @tiagosevero3446

    July 25, 2026 at 6:30 am

    So, Will we eat it locally? Or have to pay a subscription to Elon Musk and NVIDIA?

    That looks so … Parasitic

  23. @falconbritt5461

    July 25, 2026 at 9:09 am

    No species increases its viability by becoming dependent on any single outside thing, anything in the environment. In fact, becoming dependent on any one thing increases the chance a species will die off. Dependency weakens the species. Let’s develop our own innate capacity for genius, awakening all those “junk” DNA strands that were shut down.

  24. @goosie8207

    July 25, 2026 at 9:55 am

    😂😂😂😂😂

  25. @imnotsqiddy

    July 25, 2026 at 10:36 am

    If all these nerds won’t decide to put the tech progression down themselves, maybe it’s time we use guillotine tech to end the entire AI momentum.

  26. @kbssanik

    July 25, 2026 at 2:00 pm

    Lol… What an innocent worldview

  27. @blancemoore

    July 25, 2026 at 2:04 pm

    There is a third choice – Evolve. Reign in the Apocalypse ushering Tech-bros. Global Ban. Bernie introduced the Moratorium on Data Centers – are you support that, or putting your head in the sand?

  28. @jacobdross56

    July 25, 2026 at 2:11 pm

    AI once again being shoved down our throats.

  29. @toucansam7764

    July 25, 2026 at 5:12 pm

    sounds like a bunch of hoopla

  30. @beaker4311

    July 25, 2026 at 6:21 pm

    Hey mr tech bro, before you decide to merge with ai. Maybe fined a way to make a clean data center that doesnt demand 230 MILLION gallons of water. What a dumb thing to suggest. You know, ai cant tell you how many r’s are in strawberry or count to 100 with out issues, but yeah. “Merge with me, daddy tech!” 🤮🙄

  31. @cliffvickyt

    July 25, 2026 at 8:09 pm

    bullshit

  32. @Alacritous

    July 25, 2026 at 9:40 pm

    What does that even mean? What would that look like? You guys milking this s*** for paychecks and ticket sales…

  33. @Mattfann51

    July 25, 2026 at 9:42 pm

    Ted has really fallen off. Get these tech bro hacks out of here! They are not experts! They are capitalists pushing their own agenda. Putting on the veneer of “sophisticated academia” is fucking gross

  34. @djTouchesPeop1e

    July 25, 2026 at 9:49 pm

    Ai is not the problem, humans are

  35. @sycops1

    July 25, 2026 at 10:02 pm

    When humans eat AI…let me introduce you to the Necrons.

  36. @Polymath72

    July 25, 2026 at 10:47 pm

    Yes

  37. @PyrUsphA

    July 25, 2026 at 11:06 pm

    Dear robots that watch this. Take note of the true villains he points out.

  38. @Jesse-gr2xo

    July 26, 2026 at 1:20 am

    Who’s deciding these awful futures for us? They make it sound like it’s inevitable. Big corpse make it sound that way to make us submissive to their next horrible money-making plan. It’s like a dr telling you you have to have your brain removed, you don’t need that and it will empty your bank account, but it won’t be that bad and your complaining is stupid. They’re smarter. This guy is so arrogant and smug. I don’t want to join w AI, so f him. So far AI is just one big expensive problem.

  39. @Wildler-j1c

    July 26, 2026 at 11:11 am

    If we “fuse with AI” what if it gets so smart it overtakes our mind & our body is a slave to whatever we want & we just have to watch…

  40. @mklives

    July 26, 2026 at 12:19 pm

    Watched terminator 2 long time ago and I saw skynet

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