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Jason Wilkes
Graduate student in Psychology, UC Santa Barbara; Author, Burn Math Class
Why are the errors that our best machine-learning algorithms make so different from the errors we humans make?
Evan Williams
CEO, Medium
What will be obvious to us in a generation that we have an inkling of today?
Alexander Wissner-Gross
Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor
Can general-purpose computers be constructed out of pure gravity?
Milford H. Wolpoff
Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology
Can the pace of human evolution stop accelerating?
Richard Wrangham
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology at Harvard University; Author, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
In which century or millennium can all humanity be expected to speak the same primary language?
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Faculty Member, Minnesota Population Center
How do our microbes contribute to that particular combination of continuity and change that makes us human?
Richard Saul Wurman
Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences; Architect, Cartographer; Author, Information Architects
Clarify the differences between understanding, knowledge and wisdom that could be communicated to a literate twelve-year-old and recommunicated to their parents.
Victoria Wyatt
Associate Professor of History in Art, University of Victoria
How do contemporary developments in technology affect human cultural diversity?
Itai Yanai
Director, Institute for Computational Medicine; Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine; Co-author (with Martin Lercher), The Society of Genes
How can we rebel against our genes if we are biological creatures without free will?
Dustin Yellin
Artist; Founder, Pioneer Works
Will the frontiers of consciousness be technological or linguistic?
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Research Fellow; Co-founder, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
What is the fastest way to reliably align a powerful AGI around the safe performance of some limited task that is potent enough to save the world from unaligned AGI?
Dan Zahavi
Professor of Philosophy; Director, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen; Author, Self and Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy, and Shame
What is the world without the mind?
Anton Zeilinger
Physicist, University of Vienna; Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information; President, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Author, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
Will the individual quantum event forever remain random?
Carl Zimmer
Journalist: Author, A Planet of Viruses; Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
How does the past give rise to the future?
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