BONUS | Will.i.am: will AI repeat the mistakes of social media?
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BONUS | Will.i.am: will AI repeat the mistakes of social media?

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 19, 202617 min
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  • Technology

In this bonus episode of The Times Tech podcast, Katie Prescott shares her conversation with will.i.am about what comes after the AI boom. The musician and tech investor says the next big battle will be over personal data, privacy and power. Who owns your data? Where should it live? And can AI agents be built around people’s values and goals, rather than the business models of big platforms? He's been sharing his views at the recent UN AI for Good Summit in Geneva and told Katie why he believes AI could still be a...

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Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of the Times Tech Podcast with Will.i.am, where we bring you my conversation with the musician turned tech entrepreneur and someone who's thinking very deeply about where AI goes next. We talk about personal AI agents, who owns your data,

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and whether AI could repeat the mistakes of social media. You'll also hear him mention V1 and V2, which are different versions of his own AI projects. V1 is where he launched Fiona, his AI co-host for a radio show,

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who's a bit like my Norman, but with a voice. Norman has got a voice, but maybe not as good as Fiona's. And his next version is about people building their own AI agents shaped around their own data values and goals. It is a very wide ranging conversation where we speak about everything from creativity, education, privacy and power.

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