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Updated · Bloomberg · May 8will.i.am builds office classroom to teach college students AI skills
6 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 8
- The 51-year-old Black Eyed Peas co-founder has set up the classroom in his Los Angeles office.
- He says students worried artificial intelligence could threaten jobs should instead learn to use the technology to their advantage.
- Born William Adams, he is positioning himself as an AI advocate as he expands his work beyond music into technology education.
Can celebrity-led initiatives truly close the massive AI skills gap for millions of young people entering the workforce? Will personal AI 'agents' amplify our humanity, or will they erode the very skills that make us human in the first place? As AI eliminates entry-level jobs, are we creating a 'lost generation' of workers who miss the first rung on the career ladder?