Black Eyed Peas Co-Founder will.i.am Is Also an AI Evangelist

will.i.am teaches the EDU.FYI “The Agentic Self” course.Photographer: Emily Choi/FYI.AI

Black Eyed Peas co-founder will.i.am has a message for young people worried that artificial intelligence will make it hard for them to get jobs: embrace the technology, he says, and make it work for you.

The 51-year-old hip-hop artist, born William Adams, believes so much in that message he built a classroom in his Los Angeles office and has begun teaching college kids ways to boost their AI skills.