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How Will New Tech Shape Your Life? A Roboticist + a Political Strategist Answer | TED Intersections

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September 5, 2025

Should you be polite to robots? Political strategist Bradley Tusk and roboticist Ali Kashani explore how new technology is poised to make your life easier — from voting on your phone to having a robot deliver your lunch. They discuss the best ways to use technology to meet people where they are and the challenges that come with disrupting the status quo. (This conversation is part of “TED Intersections,” a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts navigating the ideas shaping our world.)

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@maikvanrossum

September 6, 2025 at 2:57 am

A future most of us can’t afford…

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- @ebolart
  
  September 6, 2025 at 4:39 am
  
  Stop being poor
  
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- @maikvanrossum
  
  September 6, 2025 at 7:01 am
  
  @@ebolart 😅 🫡 ✅
  
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- @Aymen-c5b
  
  September 9, 2025 at 2:13 pm
  
  Fact 😢👌
  
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@rafidahamed8212

September 6, 2025 at 3:25 am

Where are you nilima??

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@merqri

September 9, 2025 at 11:29 am

TIL about section 230. 😮🙄

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@joewilder

September 9, 2025 at 11:55 am

The little 4 wheeled boxes are very close to where I live in Venice. A security guard on Lincoln blvd. thinks they work for ICE because they’re painted green and white. I saw one run a red light yesterday. They frequently get stuck because a curb hasn’t been cut for handicapped use. Sometimes they actually fall over off the side of a curb. Once I picked one up and helped it get back on it’s way.

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@jonen2

September 9, 2025 at 1:41 pm

Education essentially requires the student helped to adjust to knowledge, and not knowledge becoming like the ignorants’ starting position, like a pizza delivery of superficial choice. These two are talking about new niche money-making schemes, not education.

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@JohnnyBrav696

September 9, 2025 at 2:02 pm

Bring On the Rowboats!

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@AnnieB-v8j

September 9, 2025 at 2:22 pm

Cameras which spy on everyday life. Intrusive, violating, forced on us without choice. Use of public space for personal profit. Complicating of spaces. Toxic use of environmental resources. Building passive tolerance for questionable technology advances and uses. “Totally philanthropic”! What a joke. Two entitled men discussing how they can boost their ideologies and influence in the world.

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@ranchmang

September 9, 2025 at 4:38 pm

This feels dumb so I’ll stop watching.

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@zaphodbeeblebrox2817

September 9, 2025 at 6:29 pm

18:30 Bradley, thank you for explaining this so well. I just saw some pole today that said GenZ is more divided than other generations.

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@hmh5610

September 9, 2025 at 7:09 pm

Boo

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@beatsfromthevalley2770

September 10, 2025 at 6:42 am

Dont post your room talks. Keep talking to each other😂😂😂

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@Mr.Dortion

September 10, 2025 at 10:08 am

😊 20:00

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