What if you had an AI-powered assistant — that took initiative on its own? Technology leader Swami Sivasubramanian believes AI agents are the future of work, capable of sparking new levels of productivity and creativity. Demystifying the workings of autonomous software systems, he explains what they are (and aren’t) and advocates for a world in which AI handles the boring stuff, so you can focus on what matters. (Recorded at TEDAI Vienna on September 26, 2025)
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@albertstadler2639
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 am
I didn’t subscribe to this channel to get bombarded by advertisemens for AI grifters
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December 18, 2025 at 1:27 pm
Sign of the times. Can’t fight it at this point
@liquidbraino
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 pm
So using any new technology makes you a grifter? Why don’t you write a letter; stick in in an envelope; put a stamp on it and send it to TED – instead of being a grifter?
@jean-henridunant6623
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 pm
@LBJCsure you can
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@vjysharnan
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 am
I closed this video when he started saying,
AI agents are autonomous software systems that leverage AI to reason
He thinks it’s the most simpler way to understand for a common man
@infamousmockingbird
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 am
This is garbage. I used to respect TED talks.
@TheTrueDeitel
December 18, 2025 at 11:59 am
Ted got bought by a right-wing billionaire. Some of the people still working it are good, but you’ll see the grift start to go into overdrive now.
@AndogaSpock
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 am
Looks like he read a book on how to present a topic and it told him to “smile more”
@AndogaSpock
December 18, 2025 at 11:51 am
Will this make things cheaper? I am guessing no.
@mikekazz
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 pm
Digital copies of games, music and movies used to be cheaper than the physical copies now there’s $70 digital copies. Greed finds a way even if it takes generations.
@darter9000
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 pm
What’s with all these tech-oil salesman filling up the TED queue?
@Greenytica
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 pm
This whole channel is starting to feel like an exercise in offering grifters legitimacy.
@Edward-6909
December 18, 2025 at 12:06 pm
Weve all seen the matrix and know “if your not one of us , you are one of them. They are everyone and no one. They are AI agents . They are the enemy.
@Mmm-r7b
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 pm
Booooooooo
@lumin358
December 18, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Bro was looking at his ai generated garbage on the screen the whole time. Utterly tasteless and useless talk. This is how the world of AI gonna be, full of these soul-less morons ruling on the everyday person just trying to live their life.
@johnthomas430
December 18, 2025 at 12:44 pm
He’s lying, they in fact don’t know how AI “works”, and has been proven to use AMORAL strategies to complete whatever tasks it’s been given.
@PatataPerezosa
December 18, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Unsubscribed
@fletchous444
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 pm
I think this is my last straw actually, the swarm of pro AI videos has reached its peak for me and I’m gonna have to unsubscribe
@MegaBaellchen
December 18, 2025 at 12:55 pm
AI Agents are software that run on a computer. They use a weighted multidimensional matrix to mimic neural activity and sort of learn things by heart through “training”. And through clever arrangement of many of these “neural-networks”, they mimic parts of a conversational partner, that definetly knows what the correct answer looks like, because they learned it by heart, but doesn’t even know what logic is, because it does not think. It is just automated statistical analysis, a fascinating invention and tool, to enhance what humans can do.
@PeonSanders911
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 pm
4 mins in, and he’s still babbling about himself !
@PeonSanders911
December 18, 2025 at 1:12 pm
Well, TED just confirmed it’s just a advertisement platform.
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@michaelwatts1810
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 pm
What concerns me is the people developing AI agent will be able to limit what problems people can access and solve.
@MithrilSqueegee
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 pm
So, less money and jobs for actual humans who are trying to survive.
@FarmerGwyn
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 pm
What a grifter
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December 18, 2025 at 3:04 pm
You do realise it’s free and easy to unsubscribe, right?
@eamonjun
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 pm
We’ve been shoved this ai bullshit for the past few years. We simply need a rebellion because behind all this it’s about control!
@bobbyblazini
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Same dudes make bots that rage bait us into getting warnings and bans on our actual profiles. Just leave us alone. All we want is freedom of speech and expression on the internet and in life. Let us find our way and stop telling us how to speak or how to live.
@pht73
December 18, 2025 at 4:39 pm
it was hard to get past the first 4 minute of this man’s egotistical monologue
@taharmusarsedeq7336
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 pm
Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
@jean-henridunant6623
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 pm
New owners must have a stake in AI. UNSUBSCRIBED
@vlad6703
December 18, 2025 at 11:38 pm
imagine having the VP of AWS Agentic AI telling you where the future is heading, and you choose to unsubscribe just because you don’t like it
@XeroK00L
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 pm
Great talk. AI agents help enable us to do what used to be technically or economically unfeasible to do. It opens up a whole new world of possibilities for those of us willing to learn to use them correctly.
@kaninerflagg9998
December 19, 2025 at 12:43 am
Gross.
@rorajoey
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 am
So this is the origin of the AI drek which was the season 1 recap of Fallout on Prime? I heard they had to pull that recap quickly because it was so SLOPpy. As he said, it has a long way to go. It’s definitely “not ready for prime time.” So why did they use it on Prime?
@Rachanamandal-p9q
December 19, 2025 at 1:56 am
cool to see how ai can change our work
@RajuKingTM
December 19, 2025 at 2:03 am
Tried several platforms, but I ended up with Pneumatic Workflow for its no-code simplicity and intuitive design.
@akashmishra8217
December 19, 2025 at 4:17 am
the future sounds wild fr
@onyekanwokike4589
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 am
The next big thing 3:43
@UltimatumCrazy
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 am
Loving this
@mriamali4476
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 am
AI agents are interesting, but AICarma provides weekly visibility scores that really enhance my strategy.
@EmmanuelMarwa-v2u
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 am
They starting to brainwashing us to believe AI is good for us, this demonstrates how they don’t care at all on how we will suffer from these inventions..
@CuriousJo1122
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 am
Unsubscribing now
@lifemotivation6789
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 am
Proof that limited resources can’t limit a determined mind. Vision, discipline, and persistence change everything.
@futureproofedge-25
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 am
” for anyone who knows how to write python”.. bro there’s a “gpt” for that.. coding no longer matters..
@urbanstrencan
December 20, 2025 at 1:04 am
Really great talk
@СтасГайсан-ц6ж
December 20, 2025 at 5:07 pm
Total disaster 😂.