AI Needs Intention, Not Fear | will.i.am on Leadership, Creativity & the Future of Artificial Intelligence
2/10/202640 min
In this exclusive, on-the-floor conversation filmed for a CNBC future-focused series, Shekhar Natarajan walks alongside will.i.am for an unscripted, walkthrough-style exchange on AI leadership, creativity, ethics, and responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence.
This is not a traditional interview.
It’s a real-time reflection.
From his early life with limited resources to becoming a global music icon, tech innovator, and respected voice among the world’s leading AI thinkers, will.i.am shares how purpose is shaped by observation, intention, and the people you choose to build with.
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First 90 secondswill.i.am· Guest0:00
When you have the right intentions, when you have a moral compass, when there's ethics at the core of the products you build. [upbeat music] It's not the tech.
Shekhar Natarajan· Host0:11
Yeah.
will.i.am· Guest0:12
It's the greed. [upbeat music] Is that the fate of AI?
Shekhar Natarajan· Host0:19
[upbeat music] It's an honor to be here. We are at the CES Show, shooting for Tomorrow Today and CNBC. Thank you, Will.
will.i.am· Guest0:50
Thank you. So I'm just like a, an enthusiast, a, a tinker, a thinker, a, a ideator, manifestor. You know? I- Mm ... love making stuff.
Shekhar Natarajan· Host1:01
I know that, like, you know, you had a very humble beginning. Like, you used to take, like, a, a, like, a bus, like, a yellow bus from, like, East Brentwood, like, you know, from- No, East LA to Brentwood ... Brentwood, yeah. And so, uh, East LA to Brentwood. And so ... And I come from slums in India, and I actually, like, used to watch, like, you know, like, the rich kids from my house, and I'm sure, like, you were watching, like, you know, as you were passing by. So what came to your mind when you were watching outside, and what you did not want