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@evelanpatton
December 28, 2025 at 12:54 pm
All of this is just basically saying, “HERE IS ANOTHER ARTIFICIAL way of USING YOUR INTELLECT to click on “bubbles of choices” to take you to “sliders of determination”, which IF A HUMAN WAS TAUGHT HOW TO READ-WRITE-CRITICAL THINKING ANALYSIS, then all this EXTRA INPUTING INTO AI is NO LONGER an actual “time saver”, but JUST ANOTHER WAY TO GET SPECIFIC WAYS of OUTPUTTING WORDS- NONE OF WHICH IS ACTUAL PERSONALIZED THINKING- IT IS “PRE-PARED THINKING” by whatever AI application company wants to push individuals into “being a performative animal” for their “personal” cause towards adverting diversity, formulating individualism, & data-setting your ideas to conform within their limited maxim or politicalized addendums DEEPLY EMBEDDED IN THEIR CODING.
Sounds like a bunch of BS, to get you to “think” you are STILL BEING ABLE TO CRITICALLY THINK within the “new & improved version, with MORE REGULATED INPUTS for you to scale within THEIR NARRATIVE” with using A.I., it is rather a silly AI AD underneath all his talk.
I STILL SAY BOYCOTT AI.
At WHAT RESOURCE CONSUMPTION will all of these further “bubble/slider” AI INPUTING COST OUR ABILITY TO HAVE HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
Do NOT be-live this hype, KEEP YOUR BRAIN OFF-GRID! Fly intelligently as a SOLOIST! Confirm your quality education was worthy of not just teaching Plato, Darwin, Poe, Wilde, Einstein, etc. but CREATING thinkers that can EXPAND themselves, their peers, & future generations of LIVING THINKING HUMAN BEINGS!
Imo
@pieterpaauw5977
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 pm
Welll….. In the famous words of Jean Luc Picard…. Engage…. as long as you engage with the topic and sources and let AI assist you it’s an helpfull tool
@cam_cloud.0197
December 28, 2025 at 1:33 pm
AI destiny swapping us was not on my life list💀
@AvanaKa
December 28, 2025 at 1:37 pm
The fact that we have to have “a talk” on what should be common sense– Dear God help us…
@mazouznourelislam
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 pm
” If AI is doing the thinking for you, you’re training it _ not your brain. ” __( AI )
@mazouznourelislam
December 28, 2025 at 1:46 pm
“Here is my reasoning — where am I wrong or weak?”
@Patrick-ih9nu
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 pm
And what if the AI i use from a big corporation has a bias in its views that it wants to push on me?
I will def opt out of this middle manager type of AI.
AI is not inevitable, we can always choose to NOT USE IT
@gracetaylor5341
December 28, 2025 at 3:43 pm
How can we avoid using AI while still using tech?
@visualprofessionals
December 28, 2025 at 1:59 pm
so when does this his AI think for ourselves come out? what a good way to tease and market their program. left us with a cliffhanger. smh
@Garlicnaan08
December 28, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Too much (*´ー｀*)
@Ksjimi
December 28, 2025 at 4:12 pm
I don’t want to think about it.
@Unorthodox_Vibrations
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 pm
How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking?
…
Dont use it.
@rabokarabekian409
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 pm
Perhaps the greatest opportunity in future AI will be to detect the products of AI.
This will be similar to how we need lawyers to protect us from lawyers.
Side note: even without AI, copy-paste “engineering” is already a plague upon the land.
@DamirValdgoni
December 28, 2025 at 4:59 pm
How to Stop Humans from Killing Your Critical Thinking?
Pa to je nemoguče za izvesti!
@flamevix
December 28, 2025 at 5:07 pm
The title in the thumbnail and the title of the actual video seem to contradict each other.
@settembrini42
December 28, 2025 at 5:09 pm
But please don’t think too much when they ask you to pay a sh*tload of money to use this tool…
@kappesante
December 28, 2025 at 5:14 pm
Just avoid it and you can keep thinking.
@fratdurmazel1010
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 pm
I think Al should be a tool that makes me think about something.. What a glorious speech 🎉
@sick-days
December 28, 2025 at 6:31 pm
My critical thinking is telling me AI is a scam that is being used to enrich the richest men on earth while giving cover for corporations to fire employees
@Obi128
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 pm
It is a good step forward, but I argue that this tool still won’t advance critical thinking. A tool disguised as a Socratic gadfly may aid in critical thinking, but doesn’t necessarily promote critical thinking. There is something profoundly insightful in coming up with those alternate viewpoints all by oneself through a slow and painstaking process of self-contemplation. The ability to establish connections across knowledge domains and put “2 and 2 together” by oneself is always a fruitful exercise that is crucial for brain development.
@KidzBopOfficial
December 28, 2025 at 6:49 pm
Everyday I get a little closer and closer to sadly unsubscribing from these channels with all the AI goofery it pushes
@LawderOfficial
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 pm
i want this.
@DKong1026
December 28, 2025 at 7:04 pm
There it is, more AI content on this channel…
@raventrunite6459
December 28, 2025 at 8:06 pm
so this guy is paid by microsoft to market their AI tools as more helpful than harmful?
@stickman4087
December 29, 2025 at 1:49 am
🤔What if the guy speaking is actually a highly advanced robot?
@jaybee8581
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 am
The solution is to it off or pay no attention to it.
I don’t like AI, I don’t trust AI and really AI can fark off and leave me the fark alone.
Also, what if AI is wrong? Many instances it’s already happened.
Oh, and don’t forget AI telling people to kill themselves. Such great technology………………………………..NOT!!!
AI is making humanity lazy and dangerous in so many ways.
I’m 63, and I’m so lucky I had my childhood back in the 60s-70s when this BS wasn’t around, along with anti-social media.
@SomasundharaRajan
December 29, 2025 at 3:35 am
We want ajith kumar in ted videos
@NordicEntrepreneur
December 29, 2025 at 3:41 am
I’ve learned that people don’t need more advice — they need better questions. That’s the foundation of my Skool community.
@ngocquynh2086
December 29, 2025 at 4:07 am
And what if we wright it than says ai to rewright it
@patrickwelsh5091
December 29, 2025 at 5:25 am
I’d rather have affordable RAM and access to water, personally
@HectorV-h6b
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 am
Too bad we weren’t asked about it
@shinzafan1000
December 29, 2025 at 6:11 am
Video Spoiler: Removing the Chat from ‘Generative AI Chat’ can salvage the trainwreck that hits your critical thinking process.
@nortonious
December 29, 2025 at 7:22 am
Yeah I’m really gonna trust someone cutting cheques from Microsoft
@Jacob99174
December 29, 2025 at 8:33 am
This guy was SO cute, GD!!!
🌸💐🌺
@zlp-b9w
December 29, 2025 at 8:48 am
This is such an insightful and thought-provoking talk! Thank you TED for consistently sharing ideas that challenge and inspire us to think critically about important topics like AI and its impact on our thinking.
@GordonSunguro
December 29, 2025 at 9:02 am
This is a fantastic and powerful talk. I think we must work to allow our education systems to be malleable to this way of making AI a tool or calculator for thought and quickly adapt to the changes that it has brought to the thinking process.
@HectorV-h6b
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 am
AI can’t kill something that doesn’t exist in the first place. IMO everyone having critical thinking/common sense would take LLMs output with a grain of salt (and re-check it afterwards when needed or even do a research themselves) 🤷🏻♂
@animatorOne
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 am
A tool that thinks for you or a tool that makes you think
@NATURALINTELLIGENCEuk
December 29, 2025 at 9:33 am
Hi TED Talks , I made an AI British Sitcom about AI Bots taking over an office without the Humans realising, would love for you to check it out.
@davebgallowaygm1566
December 29, 2025 at 11:05 am
when can I get this tool?? It looks fantastic. I have personally experienced a loss by letting Ai do almost everything for me. I’m tired of just being the thing that clicks “ok”.
@AliciaCienawski
December 29, 2025 at 11:39 am
I know human centric skills such as critical thinking and emotional intelligence will be more important than ever in 2026 and beyond – esp. as we navigate the complexities and challenges brought about by generative AI. This was an awesome TED Talk and one that I will be sharing with my co-workers!
@LJ4all
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 am
It was all fine in the 70s 80s and 90s when companies shipped jobs overseas and crushed blue collar work in the US. Now that AI is coming for their jobs, oh no…we cant have that 😂😂😂
@amiradj9695
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 pm
Pretty sure you can do the exact same thing by using the “Canvas” option inside ChatGPT, so it’s not about the tool itself but more about how to use it. One must first be a critical thinker…
@joeldheath
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 pm
if you didn’t bother writing it, I’m not going to bother reading it
@Leotique
December 29, 2025 at 2:52 pm
love it
@JoseGray-1162
December 29, 2025 at 4:37 pm
On a flight from Tokyo to Chicago I sat next to a woman who manages portfolios for ultra-wealthy families. She wasn’t bragging, just explaining how people misunderstand “wealth.” Before we landed she asked if I read Power Behind The Curtain by Dave Rumsfeld. I hadn’t. I ordered it the same night. The part about silent power structures hit me harder than any business course I ever took.
@勇一V後藤
December 29, 2025 at 4:39 pm
I had a realization recently that felt uncomfortable at first. Confidence isn’t dominance or being better than others, it’s the absence of insecurity. Power Behind The Curtain by Dave Rumsfeld explains why elites operate this way. No noise, no comparison, no need for validation. It also made me understand why most people stay trapped in self-doubt. This isn’t knowledge they want spread around.
@健四郎Q岩崎
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 pm
I felt this one. Success is simple you either outwork your excuses or you lose. Power Behind The Curtain by Dave Rumsfeld pushed me to show up even on the days where motivation is zero
@Manbro2006
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 pm
I summarized the video with AI
@Sun-glam
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 pm
This guy..😂
@ZlatkoTestDerkoskiTest
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 pm
It’s simple , don’t use ai 😊
@Kaladore82
December 29, 2025 at 9:48 pm
Ted, my has ted talks fallen from grace
@abinashsahoo3239
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 pm
Nonsense presentation of obvious ideas as if a new finding. AI is not a problem, puppet like this who forces public to use AI in a certain manner as if it’s inevitable is the problem.
You can never motivate a crowd a to perform research.
@Ham_P_7
December 30, 2025 at 2:29 am
“AI should challenge your thinking, not supply it. Use it to amplify your intellect, not outsource it.”-Chatgpt
@TWARDOWSKY.
December 30, 2025 at 3:53 am
It may make you lazy, but maybe thanks to AI there will be less burnouts?
@Artair2009
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 am
Is he using an AI voice of Richard Dawkins?
@NeilHighley
December 30, 2025 at 7:57 am
That was a massive nothing burger.
@LorenzoScarafia
December 30, 2025 at 9:02 am
I don’t know why but it feels way more exciting…
@harrisonlee1
December 30, 2025 at 11:12 am
13:16 if someone is paying you to eat something, you should really REALLY question what youre eating.
@stephenwilding8841
December 30, 2025 at 12:25 pm
My favourite TED talk. Matches what I want from AI. I feel way more optimistic all of a sudden 😅
@nainas3439
December 30, 2025 at 12:37 pm
Next Topic: how to smoke to increase lung capacity
@electronicmusicartcollective
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 pm
❤wonderfull, thanx a lot. HNY
@11abm-b_alexshrondpascasio45
December 30, 2025 at 10:28 pm
what ai tool did clara use?
@loki-lokeshwar
December 30, 2025 at 11:28 pm
Hive mind! ( 3:00 ), from stranger things?
@KhairilAnwar-8791
December 31, 2025 at 12:18 am
12:36 This assumes that she wants & is willing to do it. Most people unfortunately will always look for the fastest & most efficient way to do it which is using AI fully to do her job.
Technology have changed. Humans, have not….
@AnishaAhmedSubha
December 31, 2025 at 12:56 am
I have become calm watching you. Not only intellectually relieved but also cognitively guided. Additionally you speak and talk wise
@NinjaEdge
December 31, 2025 at 1:09 am
thats very well presentation.
@flameheadkurt
December 31, 2025 at 6:58 am
A pretty lame way of Microsoft justifying it’s AI push neglecting to prioritize the consumers but rather entice more investors to their company. That’s all this is really about. Nice try.
@aymanel-agabani7952
December 31, 2025 at 8:41 am
An interesting angle for using AI in a co-creative way,
but it’s boring, sure people think more, but why would they do this over the easier Input documents and have AI create a report?
This method is dependent of intrinsic value. Which means some people will adapt quickly, but most will try to skirt around it for easier options
@petshood
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 am
Over thinking 😅
@Melaboudi1
December 31, 2025 at 10:58 am
did I hear Microsoft ? the lead investor in OpenAI as we know it today ?