will.i.am: The Future of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Grammy-winning musician, producer, tech entrepreneur, author and philanthropist will.i.am is best known as the founder of the Black Eyed Peas. He shares why he's shifting away from making music and has been focusing his energy on using technology to create a better future through artificial intelligence and robotics. Oprah and will.i.am have a conversation about the dangers of technology, the era of social media, and how people have become "digitally rude." With a passion for giving back to underserved communities, will.i.am explains why he believes the key to ending poverty begins with education, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The artist also reveals why he believes artificial intelligence can be used as a tool to serve humanity and actually make us more humane. Will.i.am says, "For a long time, we've ignored our God-given technology: spirituality."

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the
0:07.6	most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:15.7	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.
0:23.3	Hey, babe. It's finally happened. Hey. Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you.
0:32.0	Okay, so everybody knows you started out. This founder of this super group, the Blackhead
0:36.4	Peace, and since then you keep rising and you keep growing. And it literally feels like you are
0:44.1	expanding. So you are consulted, you are an investor, you're entrepreneur, you're advocate,
0:50.4	you are an activist, you're a philanthropist, you're like a modern day Renaissance man.
0:56.4	I've read where you used to spend how many hours a week devoted to music for a period of time,
1:03.8	and then fewer hours a week devoted to music for a period of time. I just have to ask you this.
1:08.2	Are you retired for music? I'm not retired for music. I just don't want to be in the music business.
1:17.2	I love making music. I'm talking about me personally. Blackhead Peace, yep, we make music,
1:23.9	we haven't done it in eight years, but we have a new project that's virtual reality and augmented reality.
1:30.2	But I just think there's so much technology and there's so many young kids that are
1:34.8	doing awesome stuff to try to compete the way that we use to. I don't know. I think we're supposed
1:42.4	to do something different. Or birth new cats. I signed with Jimmy Iving when I was, he was my age right
1:49.2	now. I was 20 something. He was 40 something. And now I'm 40 something. Am I supposed to like,
1:56.6	now I think I'm supposed to be like developing cats and believing in kids the way Jimmy
2:01.6	believes in us. It's about the narrative where I saw this movie called Waiting for Superman,
2:07.2	and that movie just was the beginning of this inner transformation where you know it talked about
2:15.8	the education, the decline of education in America and our position as a leader in the world
2:22.8	and how we're dead last, we're almost last in education. And one of the schools that they
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