out of all the times to be alive this one here is like wowzers we could get it right and as an optimist I think we will or it could be very wrong we’re skirting on a very thin line between authenticity ownership do I own my facial masth and and facial recognition and AI right now nope does Beyonce own her Timber on her voice right now nope we should if Leonardo DiCaprio voice can be mimicked and cloned to the tea with AI shouldn’t he own that just by his you know physical right of how his Timbers produce his voice I believe that AI should not mimic a person I’m preparing myself for this time where Humanity has to be more human than we’ve ever been because machines are going to outdo a lot of the [ __ ] we used to do and it’s going to force us and push us to be more human to one
[00:01:02] another in March of 2023 Keith farazi the CEO of farazi Greenlight and I sat down with Will I Am for an extraordinarily vulnerable conversation about Will’s creative genius his childhood upbringing and his views on AI and how artificial intelligence is going to be empowering the next generation of creators who owns what when it comes to AI and the input it provides to creatives we’re going to dive into this with Will I Am if you don’t know will you will in a moment he is a musician a producer the entrepreneur extraordinaire who has won multiple Grammys and sold over 33 million records worldwide he’s a technologist he’s an inventor he’s creating extraordinary software which he’ll tell you about he’s one of the biggest promotors and benefactors of first robotics uh he’s the creator of the I am
[00:02:00] Angel Foundation so sit back for a beautiful conversation with Will I Am and how one of the leading creative thinkers of our time views AI his views may surprise you uh they did me all right jump in this took place during my private Summit abundance 360 in March 2023 he also got in pretty early at um Beats by Dre which is probably not a bad investment after it exited I believe to Apple no one money in that that was just like ideas Jimmy Iving is like the best it’s like my hero M on that one no so I would come home for tour Jim basil Jim basil was one of the first people that were like you got crazy ideas why don’t you come up to waterl so I fly up to waterl to the rim guys back in 2005 six around that same time um it was Paul Jacobs and Jim basil who would like
[00:03:00] encourage my wild crazy idea well Jacobs M qualcom yeah they they were like you know took me serious going to Global GS Sim in Barcelona and uh I would I came home one year in 2006 and told Jimmy let’s let’s use our music to sell our own stuff let’s make our own stuff cuz Jimmy one year was like you know what will maybe we need to make ketchup I met the hindes family they took tomatoes put some sugar in it the billionaires we need to find our ketchup so one year I come I’m like yo Jimmy let’s make our own [ ] sell our own stuff bro like we’re always selling somebody else’s stuff imagine if we sell our own stuff so like in 2007 he’s like you know I was walking on the beach with Dre and his manager wants him to sell sneakers and I remember our talk that we had last year and I told Dre [ ] [00:04:00] sneakers let’s sell speakers you want to be a part of it I’m like yeah but I was thinking of like computers and [ __ ] he was like yeah we’re going to start with headphones then we’re going to do computers and that’s how we how it all started so had like a small piece well he went on from there to be a real Creator uh if he hasn’t already in his talents but um how many of you in this room can say you have custom designed six distinct cars of which one of the of them the flip is something that Mercedes actually made um he then went on to pitch an idea to Coca-Cola um which was an entirely new Venture using their residual Plastics taking that to Market along with the brand um and most recently in the world that we all know which is the um the web 3.0 and all the the conversations we’ve been having today his new company FYI which I think maybe would be a good place to kick off and just understanding what is your your intention in building this regenerative
[00:05:02] AI Community for creatives so we’re in Geneva uh we’re at the first Global competition uh you’re on stage I’m going on stage and you’re like Peter check this out and will shows me this this platform like which is the combination of uh you know we chat and zoom and uh and five other tech companies and it’s working flawlessly and I’m like holy [ __ ] what is that uh well it’s FYI and it’s now powered by gp4 which you got Early Access to uh what was your vision what was sort of the creative moment of you because you’ve been building how many companies have you generated ideas for well over the years so when we sold Beats to uh HTC so one year Jimmy says you know what will one day you’re going to realize that you shouldn’t be the talent you need to collect Talent so I’m like wait you collected
[00:06:01] me I’m a part of your collection get the [ __ ] out of here wow you got me Dre for real wow you got a collection of talent I was like wow okay I need to start collecting Talent oh I want developers I want rappers and beat makers I want developers that could develop software to make beats software to right RS oh I’m going to go out and find real tal Next Level Talent so when we sold Beats to HTC I went to um Israel and acquired a machine learning team went to Bangalore acquired um uh natural language understanding team in Singapore natural language processing team back in 201 uh 13 12 um and we created a voice operating system by working Android and who did I
[00:07:02] call um Paul Jacobs to give me give us a Snapdragon quom chip we forked Android put it on a qualcom chip got technical acceptance from AT&T um and it was a watch so I remember the watch came here yeah we were yeah we’re exerprise visioner and we used to hold here yeah and there’s this dude by the name navine Jane who was like gave me all this energy of like you know to make me believe so certain people spark plant a seed to to make you go out there and believe that your ideas are valuable um and that got us uh you know from AT&T technical acceptance to three mobile um technical acceptance um so that has everything to do with FYI so then uh we sold that to Vonage um that team to Vonage um and Maad alame so if you if you’re in Dubai
[00:08:01] or UAE and you are at at carfor or the Mall of Emirates or Vox theaters and you’re conversational liing um these softwares that voice AI is built by a team that I sold to them it’s it’s called I am AI um and that was from 2014 15 16 all the work 15 16 17 till now so during covid I realized that the Comm the creative community had no software for made for them so if you’re a finance there’s software for you if you’re any field there’s software for you but when it comes to creatives creative across all disciplines you’re working off a WhatsApp or or or some messenger and to do that you need a Dropbox and if you’re having conversations about the things that you’re working on some of the conversations are on the comments some of them are on the text some of them are on the email and shit’s all over the place and Meanwhile your IP and your team flow is all scattered so I was like
[00:09:01] Wow imagine if there was like a singular interface for Creative Enterprise where the messenger was the file storage and the and and the digital asset management and the calendar and the conferencing and elliptical cryptography Keys um cuz why should an nft have more controls and safety and privacy than your conversations and your digital assets when you’re working why just the nft why just the the the the the the the cryptocurrency why can’t it just be all my conversations all my data and all my [ __ ] um and so and then let’s put generative AI in the middle of it to where you you and your team can collaborate um with different AIS collaborating not just you and the AI on a silo and then you send like screenshots of what you and the AI talked about to your friends but what if AI is all in the mix mix with you and your group not just one AI but a whole
[00:10:02] bunch of them and so that’s FYI fyi. a focus your intents with AI Focus your ideas with AI not the for your information obviously it’s it’s Focus your ideas and intents with by the way it’s not an idea it’s you know we were just playing with it a few minutes ago I just we saw him earlier in a four-way conversation on two different phones so two different individuals two different creatives um basic getting into it and co-creating together along with two AIS well there’ll be infinites and they’ll be those individuals it was it was just crazy to watch it was very cool yeah so you said a sentence uh with scarcity technology takes scarcity and makes it abundance yeah so let’s say like Mark B off yourself deam Cayman you guys are hyper networkers so any idea that you guys have you go to your Rolodex you call anybody in your Rolodex to get things done but the random person in boil
[00:11:02] Heights or Compton or Watts they don’t have an awesome Rolodex they have ideas but nowhere to actually manifest that idea so what used to be like your amazing Rolodex it’s going to be an amazing Rolodex of AIS to help people materialize their ideas on have a CL a clone of Tony Robbins and Mark benof and Dean Cayman that you can bring into the conversation with you well not we not clones just awesome awesome AI okay cuz cuz you want to be you want to be careful with that word clones when it comes to AI because I believe that AI should not mimic a person because I write songs and I own those songs but we’re we’re we’re we’re we’re skirting on a very thin line between authenticity ownership so if you do I own my facial math and and facial recognition and AI right now nope does Beyonce own her
[00:12:00] Timber on her voice right now nope we should if if if if Leonardo DiCaprio’s voice can be mimicked and cloned to the tea with AI shouldn’t he own that just by his you know physical right of how his Timbers produce his voice there’s so many things that we have not crossed and we have not protected people yet so we can’t say clone and AI because then it brings up a whole bunch of ethical stuff where there’s no Reg relations and and governance on people’s safety their ownership their identity because identity and data is identity and we need to make sure that identity is protects people their individualities and their communities um when it to comes to distinguish yourself from Ai and people if we wind back to half the statement you just made a bit ago you were talking a bit about your your MTP your massive massive transformative purpose around the bridging that digital divide um what are some of the things
[00:13:01] that you’re really cranking on like FYI that you think are going to be crucial in that and that Journey that you’re on that you know what are your moonshots within your massive transformative purpose well this decade um is a very um I think we are all if you had to if we spiritually had to pick what time we wanted to be alive at some point in time in our spiritual journey we all decided to be here at this point in time because this is the most transformational point in time it for Humanity it’s the 99th level of the gameplay right it’s a out of all the times to be alive this one here is like wowzers we could get it right and as an optimist I think we will or it could be very wrong that there’s no middle ground it’s just more transformational than like electricity
[00:14:02] even though I was a pretty big one I wasn’t around but thank God they got it right we got lights [ __ ] so but we got it right um this one is a different level of Illumination um what are you worried about in the short term that we could what’s the inflection point that we get it right or get it very wrong well there’s the digital divide is is so wide um algorithmic bias we haven’t seen how disruptive it’s going to be for communities yet cuz we’re just in the beginning of it um data bias we we we know that they exist but yet we don’t have a A Flock a herd of inner city poverty-stricken kids that are learning to write algorithms and build um you
[00:15:01] know systems Training Systems training data and the only way to to fix algorithmic bias is to have um a more diverse inclusive participation and making those algorithms that are going to be serving communities and people that live in them um so that’s the reason why you know the work that we do at I am Angel is super important to have people of color in and around robotics computer science engineering um earlier when we were talking to you before this conversation uh the question was put to you uh you’ve used your celebrity your Fame your wealth uh on multiple different dimensions to try and make the world a better place and the question was was that a recent transition or is that who you are um please answer it as you did before and then I want to ask a follow on
[00:16:01] question for those who are parents listening how did your parents make you who you are today because I think one of the one of the things we need to do is help make our kids uh contribute to society as part of their core DNA um I’ll start with today um I’m staying at a hotel cuz if I’m in La for so long I just stay in a hotel because I don’t want to stay at my house if I’m so I’m stayed at the hotel and then I wanted to drive which is like 2 minutes to get some breakfast but it took me 2 hours cuz it was the marathon and in that had to drive all the way to Brentwood just to cut across to come back around to Fairfax to come back up took me two hours in that two hours I remembered my bus ride from East LA to brenwood to go to school and now I’m in my freaking GT 63 Mercedes
[00:17:00] and I’m just think giving flashbacks of my childhood going through the the rich neighborhood um knowing that last month I was in Al father boach um with the Mercedes Team U brainstorming on how to improve the driving experience in the car I’m like wow what the [ __ ] how did my life how how did this happen it’s freaking amazing uh um but I grew up in a very poor neighborhood and I got bust out to britwood and somebody came up with that concept to have a magnet program to send kids from poor neighborhoods to rich neighborhoods to get better education but while I lived in the poor neighborhood my mom would sign up for government assistance um and there were like food drives where Brentwood what the rich kid kids will come to school with canned foods or box foods to give to the poor
[00:18:03] families for many years that food that they collected came to my house um and during the summer um when we would get Summer lunch programs because when you’re poor and your kids are not in school you only have one meal a day not three cuz breakfast and lunch at school is a very important um um experience for families that can’t afford to have three meals a day so during summer these kids we we were hungry during the day so we had summer lunch programs in the summer lunch programs our family gave out the free food because what you don’t want to have is rich people giving poor people free [ __ ] because the dignity the how they feel is bad so my family in the neighborhood were always we always signed up to assist um so and my mom was the after school
[00:19:02] teacher my uncle was the after school basketball teacher my aunt worked at the homeless shelter my grandmother worked at City hope so this is what we did when we were poor so now that you know I’ve had success uh I would be doing this [ __ ] even if I was poor cuz that’s what my family still does today so it’s not like um you know that’s just the way the way my mom raised us um but yeah today was a today was awesome cuz I remember driving in the yellow bus through Brentwood like wow look at those big houses damn that’s crazy so that 2hour drive you had is going to be able to be 30 seconds with your new Jetson that you got today oh eventually when when when we’re able to drive it through the cities but I remember going through those neighborhoods like wow look at those big houses now I’m like damn these houses
[00:20:00] are small you know uh by the way I just I I saw I saw the child in will light up when he saw the Jetson preview earlier today wow um when it comes to somebody who likes his toys I think uh I’ve never seen a faster yes I want one no I here give me two for one right here’s why cuz uh I I always have these projects that I side projects that I’m working on so there’s like three projects that I’m working on currently um one of which um when I asked the guys from Jets and like yo how much how big is your team how long did it take to build this what did it cost and as I was excited I was Furious because there’s this one project that I’m currently working on which is like a a three-seater electric vehicle that has a tilt goes 0 to 60 in 1.5
[00:21:01] seconds and uh it’s called a rocket huh no it’s it’s it’s weighs a th000 lbs uh yeah and it and I’m like darn it I should have just like not did that and just like invested all my money with these guys but we’re still going to we’re still going to push it through you don’t you don’t don’t give up but yeah wait wait before you go there you just said something you said you don’t give up no hold on how many times have you looked back and said I should have given up maybe a little earlier on that one or how do you think about this idea of abandoning things versus perseverance dreams that you might have had that you you today are willing to say well not anymore how do you think about that trade-off if you have the ability to see something through no matter how long it takes you’re supposed to see it through if it’s your highest calling right it’s not just I mean there’s times where you
[00:22:00] do something for the money and it gets super hard you never do things for the money okay so just make that pre that premise right you never do things for money you do it cuz like your heart’s burning yes like you do it cuz like oh my gosh you waking up like oh my gosh like every moment of the day is like oh my gosh and if you have a project like that you never give up don’t care if like there’s going to be these in these turns there’s going to be ups and downs and if you’re not a roller coaster riter if you don’t know how to freaking like write it you shouldn’t be here in the first place but you never give up there was this one thing like fail fast like whoever said that’s weak is [ __ ] you only fail fast if you’re in it for money if you love it you you go through it and you’re going to come out learning so much more at the end there’s so many
[00:23:01] folks the reason why they say fail fast because they’re afraid of failing and they don’t want people to know they failed so fail quick right so that’s a that’s a what an investor would say we’re going to go we’re going to go back and rewrite all those agile operating systems in your organization no but dreamers should not a dreamer should not fail fast that’s a good one that’s right there you go so so will we the the the conversation here is success to significance we’ve got a room full of successful entrepreneurs CEOs business owners um and you know there’s a point at which you make enough money and you can’t spend it in a lifetime uh you don’t want to leave it to your kids and ruin their lives you don’t want to leave it to your lawyers to give away after you’re dead um and I guess one of my missions through abundance 360 is is help people play at a bigger game right
[00:24:01] uh to to do those things I believe that the world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities and why not go and solve the world’s biggest problems um can you as you think about huge uh you know scary ass problems that you want to go after uh do you die blind do you go pull a team together how do you how do you think about um going to do something big bold a moonshot a teams putting putting teams together the team building um having dream Partners to tackle Collectibles yeah you want to you want to have dream Partners to tackle nightmares the only way out of a nightmare is to dream out of it like the moment you wake up from a nightmare you’re eventually going to go back to sleep and face that nightmare but you want to create the dream um and that
[00:25:02] dream team that assembly of that dream team is how you um creatively solve problems um but I wouldn’t even look at them as problems you’re just creating and that creation of whatever that issue is is a beautiful task but you create to create a better world and not just to go and and flip money to make more money yes is that true how do you think about that um I don’t I don’t um I think that’s that’s my biggest issue um I don’t look at it from making money i’ I’ve I’ve been blessed to have made money to fuel my idea um manifestations um and and some of my ideas have made money but I don’t go in
[00:26:01] it from making money and it’s the same way with songs um there’s some songs that I wrote that are like yo this is going to be a smash and then there’s some songs that are like oh this is how I feel right here and I got to get this out and that where the love is this is how I feel right here I got to get this out I got a feeling is this is going to be a smash but where’s the love is the special one I wouldn’t be H I wouldn’t be able to be at the seat to write I got a feel him if it wasn’t for Words of Love so purpose from the heart questioning what’s going on that and I apply that same methodology to coming up with ideas and having the you know being audacious and ambitious and fearless to then go to mutar Kent at the time when he was the CEO of Coca-Cola and say hey company the size
[00:27:00] of Coca-Cola should be verbs in society if you don’t believe me Google it um and your verb is Coke backwards for EK C for Eco consumption Eco collaboration Eco concept Eco cycle Eco community and let’s take your byproduct create a new base cloth and license that to other companies to execute their sustainability efforts and we call that EOS so are those Eco cycle Levis all those ecycle beats and so they bought that idea and so we we we arm wrestled for a while who owns Coke backwards um so so I own that with them um which is another crazy [ ] like what who the [ ] would have thought that one so everybody I want to take a short break from our episode to talk about a company that’s very important to me and could actually save your life or the life of someone that you love company is called Fountain life and it’s a company
[00:28:01] I started years ago with Tony Robbins and a group of very talented Physicians you know most of us don’t actually know what’s going on inside our body we’re all optimists until that day when you have a pain in your side you go to the physician or the emergency room and they say listen I’m sorry to tell you this but you have this stage three or four going on and you know it didn’t start that morning it probably was a problem that’s been going on on for some time but because we never look we don’t find out so what we built at Fountain life was the world’s most advanced diagnostic Centers we have four across the us today and we’re building 20 around the world these centers give you a full body MRI a brain a brain vasculature an AI enabled coronary CT looking for soft plaque a dexa scan a Grail blood cancer test a full executive blood workup it’s the most advanced workup you’ll ever receive 150 gigabyt of data that then go to our
[00:29:02] AIS and our physicians to find any disease at the very beginning when it’s solvable you’re going to find out eventually might as well find out when you can take action Fountain life also has an entire side of Therapeutics we look around the world for the most Advanced Therapeutics that can add 10 20 healthy years to your life and we provide them to you at our centers so if this is of interest to you please go and check it out go to fountainlife decomp when Tony and I wrote Our New York Times bestseller life force we had 30,000 people reached out to us for Fountain life memberships if you go to Fountain life.com Peter will put you to the top of the list really it’s something that is um for me one of the most important things I offer my entire family the CEOs of my companies my friends it’s a chance to really add decades onto our healthy lifespans go to
[00:30:02] fountainlife decomp it’s one of the most important things I can offer to you as one of my listeners all right let’s go back to our episode tomorrow tomorrow morning um this group of Titans are humbly going to meet each other and have a conversation about some of the places they’re struggling some of the places they’re looking for transformation in their lives we believe that through empathy uh and vulnerability great relationships are created so question I would have for you is um whether it’s personal or professional where are the opportunities for your transformation what’s what what are some of the things that right now you’re working on that’s a big deal um preparing preparing myself for what’s coming and uh AI is an amazing we’re like I said we all came here
[00:31:01] spiritually for this moment and what we’re experiencing is a massive transformation to how we do things um if you’re a mathematician a calculator wow probably can’t out calculate a calculator you’re not going to out logic a logic machine and these these uh these new creative tools um it’s amazing it’s going to render a lot of jobs obsolete if you’re a bus driver that won’t that won’t be your job in 2030 truck driver delivery driver if you’re a legal assistant and you read through the contracts that’s not your job if you’re a finance you know manager that’s that’s that’s not your job um a lot of jobs are going to be gone in these next 10 years and
[00:32:00] um but for the the hyper creative that person that can’t that never was able to sleep that person that exhausted their friends and family and their close ones with like another idea they’re like oh come on Bobby dude I’m sleep dude and that person felt like gosh I’ve exhausted every single person with an idea now they feel liberated because now they have a freaking pingpong part partner to freaking go head to-head with and they’ve never felt Freer m ai’s going to supercharg that hyper creative I know what that feels like when you call your friend randomly cuz you got another idea to fine-tune and you’ve exhausted your whole freaking Rolodex so I’m preparing myself for this time where Humanity has to be more human than we’ve ever been because machines are going to outdo a lot of the [ __ ] we used to do and it’s going to force us
[00:33:02] and push us to be more human to one another um and that’s going to be anaz it’s an amazing time at your core what do you believe your superpower is that can’t be chat gbt out uh right now it’s not going to out idea me like original idea ever no and I don’t say that arrogantly it won’t because it doesn’t have the heart and what what’s generating that idea yeah it’s going to come up with ideas but it’s not going to relate to the human it’s not going to have the emotional Drive behind yeah so the ideas the the ideas are like human ideas are that that are the human connection yeah it’s cool it’s going to come it’s going
[00:34:00] to do some awesome [ ] don’t get me wrong this [ ] is [ ] amazing but I just know that it’s going to push people like me to [ ] do even more awesome [ ] I don’t sing like Michael Jackson I can’t dance like freaking James Brown I can’t play the piano like Stevie Wonder I can’t wh like [ ] Jimmy Hendrick but I got some [ ] ideas right and so I don’t you hyper creatives do not let other genius dim their light MH it makes your light even brighter like oh [ ] I’m inspired by you look what I can do and that’s what AI is going to do but this time it’s going to do it from a human to human perspective we’re going to be more human with one another um and if you think about like body dysmorphia what filters have done to people how I’m I’m worried
[00:35:02] that there’s people that look at themselves on Instagram filter and that’s what they want to look like now and they go and change their body around they change their face around they don’t they’re depressed inside and if that’s what happened to camera imagine what’s going to happen to people when they rely on the machine to thing for them imagine you’re on a group chat and you feel daunted that everybody’s firing off and now ai is [ ] firing off more than you are so you feel like oh [ ] I’d rather be represented by my AI version of myself there’s going to be new types of psychological I don’t feel I I’m not there adequate adequate yeah so these are things that we have to be we need to empathize on we need to make sure that we are you know or more
[00:36:02] patient with one another um you you see how remember when we were in elementary school remember being in the classroom and the teacher said raise your hand some people didn’t raise their hand the ones that were like extroverts raised their hand those folks that felt like I don’t know I don’t I don’t want to I don’t want to be called upon I don’t want to be judged because I don’t want people think that I don’t know you know what’s coming how people are going to behave and conversate we are in a society right now with the most awesome Tech and we are talking with memes and emojis and SMS short sentences that’s what most people behave in conversation they are responding with pictures memes and emojis at the time where AI is rifling off deep complex thoughts look at how unbalanced we are
[00:37:02] already starting off now imagine the the the body dysmorphia that filters have done to people what’s going to happen psychologically to people when me mental health is a big subject moving forward this is how we’re starting off Chad GPT oh my gosh look at this ask all these questions people who graduated college they leave College remembering things now it’s about not knowledge it’s about being curious and the right questions to ask yeah I’m not I’m not sure that anybody else has heard the term intellectual dysmorphia but I think we might have coined it this evening thanks to you yeah you know will uh there’s a lot of fear mongering around AI uh and I just want to uh talk one second about the ability it has to level the playing field at the same time that we’re concerned about a digital divide right to make healthc care democratized
[00:38:02] and demonetized and education democratized and demonetized we’re going to have Sal KH on stage with us on Tuesday from Khan Academy right who just partnered up with uh with open AI we’ll have uh Imad mustak tomorrow he’s about to roll out an educational program across all of Malawi uh using uh uh stability AI um there is the potential for this to look like Google is the same for the poorest child and the wealthiest child as long as they have a smartphone there is the potential for this to level much of the playing field out there yes yeah Forever Learning so and health yeah but that also comes with Forever Learning so the reason why we have health issues because people really don’t know much about their bodies and nutrition what a calorie actually is um uh the junk food survival food that’s around them at disposal um so Forever Learning is super
[00:39:00] important where we’re going um so I I I believe that AI will play a big role in in that concept of Forever Learning not you go to elementary to go to Junior High to go to high school to go to college for eight more years and then that’s all you know and you’re never going to learn anything and then you work for some odd years and retire that’s that that’s old school you’re going to have something that’s in your life like aspirational GPS like right now we have we know GPS is geographically I could get from here to there you tell Siri or whatever um directions to Lex and if it tells me to make right when I should have went left it uh it doeses a uh re re recourse uh instantly and ETA but the same isn’t for like uh I I want my bank account to be X in the next 5 years there’s no aspirational GPS this
[00:40:03] is what I want to accomplish in my life this is what I want to be in the next 5 years there’s no aspirational GPS um Destin there’s there’s GPS for Destination not GPS for Destiny and so is AI going to play that role for us and if it is how ethical is it going to be are regulations are there governance to make sure that we’re protected um and and with all of that how are we safe I think you just created a new product for Merl Lynch what the the aspirational financial GPS no that’s FYI bro okay I got it got it hey how how how long are you going to live and what are some of your really big bucket list items between now and then what how am I going to live how long you live the conversation we have here a lot is you know how long do you want to live a healthy life how long we want to live is mine what’s your number I’m going to live forever sorry um um how that’s a
[00:41:02] freaking scary question yeah without a Target you’ll miss it so what’s your target with all the technology that tomorrow you can sign up for um 120 good there you go and so bucket list items between now and then one or two biggies um I have a school um and that school teaches kids that have no parents or come from some poverty stricken area um uh Forever Learning uh that campus is for R&D on all things tomorrow and uh it’s like a hybrid of MIT and uh yeah that’s that’s my dream is to have that you still thinking about being being a dad a dad in in ways I am a dad cuz the kids
[00:42:04] that I support but one day I would have my own kids um unfortunately I’m going to be a grandpa dad um I’m 40 just turned 48 two days ago young man very young I had my kids when I was 50 yeah what’s up bro hey you got you got plent you got plenty of time by the way it’s one of the best longevity programs ever they keep you young um will uh people here who have like gotten to the Pinnacle they’ve sold their company their company’s running on automatic they’re uh you know they’re a little bit bored what they’re doing they’re excited here going back to the success to significance what would you tell them what’s the steering question about uh how they use their talent their treasure meure their Tech their connections how do you think about
[00:43:06] that building teams identifying leaders to expand those teams to solve whatever problem there’s a bunch of problems to solve and there’s ways to solve them uh in a beautiful way that encourages that empowers and enables um and maybe business comes out of it um maybe a solution is uh comes through that journey of 12 years it’s really a 12E program um me meaning you should if you’re going to get into something be prepared to take it on for a dozen years yeah I mean people don’t real you know people forget that most successful companies that you think were overnight successes you know it’s overnight success after 11 years of hard work so I remember it was 2008 we just did yes we
[00:44:01] can and I was jazzed and pumped and Mark bov introduced me to um General Coen pow and I’m sitting next to him he’s to the left of me we’re in San Francisco and I’m like Hey general Co pal nice to meet you you know now that you know people that got activated and you know did our part what do you think a person like me should do to keep the momentum going now that Obama is elected he said if I were you will I would focus on the neighborhood that I come from that you come from um I’m not I don’t want to be assump to assume but I’m pretty sure it’s some inner city I’m like yeah it is he was like focus on that there was nothing to hold you back or slow you down and you could you could do some serious work with the energy that you have and the commitment you have so I started there in 2008 with 65 kids and then Ron conry introduced me to Lorraine Paul jobs and Lorraine Paul jobs had a program called college track and I asked
[00:45:02] her hey can we bring that to La she says well we I have no plans taken into La it’s only in the Bay Area and if and if we consider it um it’s a big responsibility on you because you have to fund it um and that’s a 10year commitment so I’m like I have to F it’s your program you got a whole lot of money she was like yeah but to be fair we only focused in the Bay Area I had no intentions on taking it to Los Angeles um and it’s a $10 million commitment because you have to see these kids through high school and to college and you have eighth graders they haven’t even graduated yet so it’s 10 years two the last two years of Middle School four years of High um High School four years of college I’m like all right at that point in time I
[00:46:02] didn’t have that much money so I’m like 10 million bucks [ __ ] it let’s do it I’ll figure it out so we figured it out that 65 kids now it’s 12,000 students we sign up another 10 years that’s what a person can do when they have no money imagine what you can do with the money you guys have there you go drop the mic one time Dean Cayman in Dean C’s Dean cayman’s house and Dean’s like so much energy this dude’s energy is like I thought I had energy this Dean gaming guy he’s freaking like a fre electricity so Dean’s like we’ve been doing first for 20 years and nobody knows about it so I’m like uh have you put it on TV yet he’s like nobody wants to put see a robotics
[00:47:01] competition at least that’s what they tell us I was like oh we’re playing the Super Bowl this year um I think we could figure out how to put it on television so I called ABC I said hey how much does an hour of time cost I was like well run you about a million bucks so I was like okay I’ll buy a uh an hour of time in sep Timber back to school program so they sold me an hour so then I called Dean Hey Dean I got an hour of TV it’s going to take take the robotics Pro uh competition that we play the halftime show we’re going to put it on television the problem was nobody wanted to put up the risk money everybody wants to do things but who’s putting up the risk money quiet so somebody has to put up the risk money so so I was like [ __ ] it I’ll do that too so we did it made our money
[00:48:00] back at least we broke even but more importantly more people knew about verse and that’s when General Charlie sorry um General Charlie Balden from NASA then calls me that’s how I got the song to Mars cuz he says how can you do what you did for first for NASA hey everybody this is Peter a quick break from the episode you know I’m a firm believer that science and technology and how entrepreneur can change the world is the only real news out there worth consuming I don’t watch the crisis News Network I call CNN or Fox and hear every devastating piece of news on the planet I spend my time training my neural net the way I see the World by looking at the incredible breakthroughs in science and technology how entrepreneurs are solving the world’s Grand challenges what the breakthroughs are in longevity how exponential Technologies are Transforming Our World so twice a week I put out a Blog one blog is looking at the future of longevity age reversal
[00:49:03] biotech increasing your health span the other blog looks at exponential Technologies AI 3D printing synthetic biology AR VR blockchain these Technologies are transforming what you as an entrepreneur can do if this is the kind of news you want to learn about and shape your neural Nets with go to demand.com back/ blog and learn more now back to the episode can I ask those of you who are supporters of first can you stand up one second just go ahead stand up if you’re if you’re a first supporter here all right so every year we we raise money through the longevity Platinum program and through a360 for first take uh people to Dean’s home um first is one of the most extraordinary programs and and you are one of the faces Advocates uh promoters of first can you take a second and just tell because it’s religion I made a deal with Dean the first time I
[00:50:00] met him he would support xprize but he said first and foremost you must support first and it’s been a deal I’ve kept um and I donate and support every year uh what is first what does it do and why is it important so first is uh for inspiration it’s first of all first is the most inspirational program for youth robotics or Youth Empowerment youth acknowledgement seeing how amazing these kids work and solving problems and how technical they are to building tomorrow’s tools uh it’s it’s amazing um and I was transfixed The Moment I Saw the kickoff in New Hampshire in 2009 um and since then vowed to you know bring that program to inner cities like mine
[00:51:00] um and uh I started with I think we had three teams and those three that three teams now turned into 400 schools across La so out of all the programs our L USD collaboration with first is the biggest Lau School District that has the most robotics uh teams um Across America um and I I think I thank Dean all the time for trusting um imagine what his board must have thought when I went and said hey I want to they’re like he’s in a rap group he goes out to clubs all the time is that who we want to to represent um first and the reason why you have to take that in consideration on on how protective and concerned they might have
[00:52:01] been cuz it’s not like there was there was a another person that comes from popular culture that was working with first robotics before I came there so of course the board would probably have been a little concerned um but to Lily and Tatiana and the I am Angel Foundation how delicate and and um that we’ve been at the same time is you know taking it to our heart like it it was our program like it’s not that’s not my program that’s Dean’s program but you adopt it like it’s your program because it is the best program and when you have something that that uh is someone else’s that you adopt like it’s yours that is now your North my North Star because I acknowledge the responsibility and the accountability and and and how it’s transformed my community like it truly has transformed
[00:53:00] my my community we’ve sent kids to Dartmouth to Brown to Stanford to MIT I mean not MIT that’s where they want to go that’s the dream and one of our kids said you know I couldn’t get into MIT or uh Carnegie Millan but I got into Brown so uh we’re really really really happy with uh the results 70% of our kids um 100% GR uation rate 70% of which go to school for a stem skill set um uh so yeah um so the question you’ve been so crazy generous in the world and to so many causes um there’s a lot of folks here that might be able to be supportive of you I would ask two questions one is um is there an ask for this audience in terms of their individual participation in anything you’re working on did you’d like to say I am Foundation First whatever it is and then the second thing is um at a minimum you’ve got a lot of
[00:54:02] influencers here is there a specific behavior change you’d like to ask this group of individuals to consider how they walk around in the world is there some X to Y that you could imagine that the world would be better if uh if they picked up some some Behavior change so a cause that you you could they could support in and some Behavior change um I’ll answer I’ll answer the second one first um the fact that everybody’s in this room the that behavioral the idea of a behavioral change is not needed because they’re rocking we’re all rocking in the uh the vibration of the optimism of Peter and we all rhyme with that that vibration so to to say that there’s a vibr uh a behavioral change would be uh oh no nope we’re all vibing so this is an awesome group um if if there was a behavioral
[00:55:01] change then that will reflect Peter’s magnetism and how he’s curated this uh this event so everybody’s like Rock Solid um first um for some reason raising money to make machine smart is super easy raising money to make kids smart is super hard wow so um I am Angel that’s all we want to do is making sure that we make kids smart because if there’s any time kids needed to be smart moving forward it’s right now as we Face intellectual dysmorphia as a issue that no one’s thinking about we’re excited about GPT
[00:56:00] wow these nature language models W you know what’s going to happen to kids you know what’s around the corner if somebody can program you could create AI to do a bunch of stuff you could create you can create an AI to scrape all your Facebook information that’s for sale by the way to scrape facial data from your family members on your Instagram page as they posted all their snacks and Foods that’s for sale by the way to then call you mimic your family wait which is not regulated by the way and [ __ ] with people’s minds and hit you with all the targets that affect how you feel cuz there’s no governance by the
[00:57:00] way that’s where we are by the way and N none of that is like we have to be super empathetic we have to be super like Mindful and at the same time make sure our kids are prepared for this tomorrow that’s starting now by the way let’s take uh just two or three brief questions and then uh uh let’s give will a chance actually have Nora hi um I have a question related to that sort of intellectual dysmorphia but generally ways that we could potentially combat um knowing whether something is human or not uh authenticity um which has a whole bunch of other consequences anyway there’s a log that is uh I think was used by the SEC that uh predicts like anything that’s naturally or organically occur uring uh is going to have a certain number of like the number of volcanic eruptions or the number of
[00:58:01] hairs on your head or stars in the galaxy it all falls on like this distribution of like if it starts with a one it’s way more likely starts with a two like second most likely I think three is somewhere there and it like drastically drops off at nine I was wondering if there’s ways that you could use that or even like personality typology to program AI uh to combat bias like are there ways we can use certain tools that capture Humanity in a distinct way to solve some of these problems um I don’t know the answer to that all I know is this deep fake stuff it’s going to get even more indistinguishable from real stuff Ray who’s a dear friend Ray will be with us uh answering questions on Thursday this prediction is 2033 high bandwidth BCI to the neuro to the neocortex the brain um
[00:59:02] how do you feel about that uh are you number one on the waiting list or uh never um never and and that’s because I don’t know what’s on the other side of that and uh I grew up Apostolic um and I don’t trust I don’t trust the algorithm to put my mind that’s connected to my spirit there fascinating all right one last question from Mannie here behind you hey Will um you’ve been an incredible Creator your entire career and we work with startups all the time where Founders run into to Big Blocks um what how do you get past that if you ever run into blocks where you know
[01:00:01] you’ve got a dream you’ve got something in your heart what’s your what’s your Technique what’s your advice oh when you when you hit a a wall or an anxious yeah a muddy anxious uh surface um do you just create more I I’ve just I’ve never had a block um the reason why you have a block is because you’re worried about getting it wrong and improv tells you Jazz tells you there’s no such thing as wrong you create um and you wake up you look at it maybe it’s horrible but you still created and the moment you create and you’re judgmental on your own stuff is when you hit a block but you’re not supposed to create and judge yourself you’re just supposed to keep on creating um free of of Judgment
[01:01:03] of your own self because yeah that’s uh yeah I don’t you don’t judge your create what you create thanks ladies and gentlemen give it up for will [Applause] [Music] am