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Can AI Make Us More Human? A Social Psychologist + a Business Leader Answer | TED Intersections

As AI continues to integrate into our workplaces, how do we ensure we don’t lose what makes us human? Social psychologist Heidi Grant speaks with NiCE’s CX Division president Barry Cooper about why the current era of AI is misunderstood and how working with this new technology — instead of against it — can help…

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As AI continues to integrate into our workplaces, how do we ensure we don’t lose what makes us human? Social psychologist Heidi Grant speaks with NiCE’s CX Division president Barry Cooper about why the current era of AI is misunderstood and how working with this new technology — instead of against it — can help you grow both inside and outside of your career. (This content is made possible by NiCE. It however does not necessarily reflect the views of NiCE.)

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  1. @tomg3650

    September 26, 2025 at 5:41 pm

    w

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  2. @jezzdavis9059

    September 26, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    No.

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  3. @6tbm

    September 27, 2025 at 12:08 am

    No.

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  4. @D3B3HD

    September 27, 2025 at 7:57 am

    Those who say ‘no’ are the same people who rely solely on their social ai algorithm to communicate.

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  5. @bryanmccaffrey4385

    September 28, 2025 at 10:46 pm

    Great way to socially engineer people. Limited dataset for training. How much knowledge has been digitized for training? Right. But. It’s a great weapon of influence.

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  6. @RedCloud-h6f

    September 29, 2025 at 12:19 am

    Can you make painting of Mona Lisa any better?

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  7. @deedeeodimm

    September 30, 2025 at 10:48 am

    This Ted Talk brought to you by SkyNet defense systems

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    • @roshankuriakose101

      September 30, 2025 at 11:08 am

      😂 Genesis

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  8. @AdvantestInc

    September 30, 2025 at 11:02 am

    Almost paradoxical, technology making us ‘more human.’ A reminder that the way tools are integrated matters as much as the tools themselves.

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  9. @29011970

    September 30, 2025 at 11:08 am

    Il problema non è la tecnologia… È il proprietario, della tecnologia!
    Per tutto il resto ci raccontiamo solamente favole!

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  10. @Timothy0073D

    September 30, 2025 at 11:17 am

    AI helps us achieve our potential to the best of our ability, inspired by our desire, held in check by our laziness.

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  11. @Jasonxbr

    September 30, 2025 at 11:30 am

    Ai just made tilly norwood. it’s coming 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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  12. @AuraSpring101

    September 30, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    What is “Better”? It is completely subjective, in the context of a “better” human, because even perfection is inherently a imperfection if I say it is.

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    • @AuraSpring101

      September 30, 2025 at 12:52 pm

      The highest standard can never beat interpretation, because itself is a interpretation.

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  13. @KMHill

    September 30, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    This series has been dreadful.

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Wealth inequality gets talked about as an economic problem. Writer Xochitl Gonzalez makes the case that it’s a civic one, too — a slow, quiet threat to democracy. Drawing on her research into the psychology of social class, she shows how growing up with (or without) money changes how we experience politics, community and society. (Recorded at TED Democracy Philadelphia on June 13, 2026)

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