What makes us human in the age of AI? A psychologist and a technologist answer | TED Intersections
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🗓️ 14 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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AI has the potential to impact the way humans interact with the world — and each other. Social psychologist Brian S. Lowery and AI technologist Kylan Gibbs dive into the ramifications of emerging technologies on people's mental health and social dynamics. Hear why Gibbs thinks, counterintuitively, the more we use AI, the less real it will feel — and how Lowery suggests we fulfill our intrinsic need for connection amid dizzying technological advances. (This conversation is part of "TED Intersections," a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts exploring ideas at the intersection of their experience.)
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks daily, |
| 0:11.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.1 | Today, something special, a new original series called TED Intersections, featuring speakers taking on subjects at the intersection of their expertise. |
| 0:26.8 | We've paired up social psychologist Brian S. Lowry with AI Technologist Kielin Gibbs to talk through technology in the near future, |
| 0:34.7 | whether we're too worked up about AI and what differentiates humans from other creatures, |
| 0:39.7 | including artificial ones after the break. |
| 0:47.0 | And now our TED Talk of the day. What makes a human a human? |
| 0:50.0 | Pugh. |
| 0:51.0 | He's total of the I would look at it like two ways I would look at it like |
| 0:58.0 | one is for my personal life and one is for my work life like one thing that's |
| 1:01.1 | interesting is like there's been points when I've been spending like four to five hours a day in tracking the AI and the interesting thing that happens in that is the things that you notice like when people start when people start first like black and white TV. |
| 1:14.2 | And they're like, wow, this is like real life. |
| 1:16.6 | But then as you get used to it, you start to kind of realize |
| 1:19.7 | the things that make it less authentic. |
| 1:21.2 | And I think something that I realize the AI is like |
| 1:23.4 | there's certain ways that we interact that are just more spontaneous like there's |
| 1:27.2 | something about the predictability of AI that teaches you about like the |
| 1:29.7 | spontaneity of being human the ways they communicate, the naturalness, the contextual awareness, like these |
| 1:35.1 | little things that all add up. That's on the technical side. On the other side, I mean, I think |
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