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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.

  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

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