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title: "Coffee with Crow: The AI Roadmap Ahead: Pro Human Learning & Work"
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author: "Michael Crow, will.i.am, Sonya Christian"
date: "2026-04-14 12:00:00"
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topics: "ASU+GSV 2026, conference transcript, Workforce Learning, Alternative Pathways, AI/ML, AI in Education, Workforce Development"
summary: "ASU President Michael Crow moderates a conversation with will.i."
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> **ASU+GSV 2026 Summit** | Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 11:00 am-11:40 am | THE FORCE

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## Speakers

- **Michael Crow**, ASU President
- **will.i.am**, FYI.AI
- **Sonya Christian**, CA Community Colleges Chancellor

## Key Takeaways

- ASU President Michael Crow moderates a conversation with will.i.am (founder of FYI.AI) and Sonya Christian (Chancellor of California Community Colleges) about building pro-human AI tools for education and workforce development.
- Will.i.am introduces his concept of the "agentic self" -- a personal AI system owned by the individual, built on their own GPU, that reclaims data sovereignty from tech companies and empowers lifelong learning.
- Chancellor Christian describes California Community Colleges' commitment to bringing AI agency to 2.2 million students with equity at the center, emphasizing faculty co-development and the HUMANS principles framework for responsible AI adoption.
- The session culminates in a vision of scaling agentic AI tools through the ASU-FYI.AI partnership (Edufy) into community colleges serving historically underserved populations.

## Notable Quotes

> "What is agentic self? It's you taking the power of your data... The most valuable commodity on earth is individual data and then the aggregate of that, which is community data."
>
> — **will.i.am**

> "If we don't show up, and if we don't find the tools to be able to build that human agency using the agentic self, then what we're doing is we're part of the problem of widening power gaps, of widening wealth gaps, of widening health gaps."
>
> — **Sonya Christian**

> "Agentic self is liberation. The French gave America a torch. This era is giving every single person a torch to illuminate their path through this digital verse."
>
> — **will.i.am**

> "This is the first opportunity where we've had something like what Will is talking about, the building of this agentic self... that could work with anyone. I mean, aren't we just lucky to be alive right now?"
>
> — **Michael Crow**

> "What we're talking about is agency literacy. How do we really bring out the agency of the individual so that the individual can really connect and make sure that they are able to track the fast-moving economy?"
>
> — **Sonya Christian**

## Full Transcript

So let me just forewarn you with these two people here, I have no idea where this is going to end up. So let's do this. Sonia, let's start with you. So you're the boss of the largest college in the United States.

You have 2 million students, plus, you've got campuses everywhere. You're deeply embedded in the community. You've got Tom Hanks is one of your graduates. You've got unbelievable variety in these schools.

You're a math genius yourself. I mean, so just give me a sense of how do we take what this platform in California, which is in many ways from a community college perspective, the role model for the country, how do you move it to the next two or three levels before I bring in Will over there who's working with a number of your community college leaders, East LA and Compton and other schools on an ongoing and regular basis. So how do you possibly move a creature of that size? Well, let's not talk about Tom Hanks when we have Will.

I am in the house. Let's give You know, my daughter was visiting from Toronto yesterday, and when I told her that Will.I.Am was going to be here, she almost canceled her plans to be here. So California community colleges, can I hear some noise, please? Yep, yep, yep.

And some more for a partnership with ASU and Will.I.Am. Let's hear it again. All right. So, you know, Michael really set the stage when, you know, he sort of, you know, provided the framework of A.I. being really an empowerment tool.

And when you talk about the California community colleges and the 2.2 million students, you're talking about the entire demographics of California represented from that student who's going to be a Ph.D., from that student who's going to be an artist like Tom Hanks, and from that student who is trying to figure out how to gain family wage jobs for their families and for their communities. So the sense of, you know, this principle, I think that was a phrase that you're using, the principle engagement with A.I. You see in 2023, the Board of Governors for the California community colleges made it very clear. I mean, CHAT-GPT happened in November 2022.

And in 2023, our board said that we must engage with A.I. and the future of teaching and learning. And that really started the entire work of looking out for innovation. And when you talk about innovation, where do you come to? ASUGSV.

So we have over 42 individuals from the community colleges, California community colleges, here today to look at what is the cutting edge innovation so that we can keep equity at the center and bring agency to our students. So the language we're using in the California community colleges these days is not about A.I. literacy. A.I. literacy is there. What we're talking about is agency literacy.

How do we really bring out the agency of the individual so that the individual can really connect and make sure that they are able to track the fast-moving economy? So we are looking for innovation that we can try out, we can test out, and then take it to scale at the California community colleges. I will end, you know, my comments by saying that, you know, in the last, in the first panel, the moderator talked about hope. And that's what community colleges are all about.

It's really the hope for the future. And this saying is so fit for community colleges. Hope is the ability to see the music of the future, the ability to see the music. And what is faith?

Faith is the courage to dance to it today. And that's what we're doing at the California community colleges, is engaging in faith for a better California. Fantastic. So, Will, you are among those that are out there advancing these A.I. tools.

You are the person, in my view, who's bringing it humanity, who's bringing it a mechanism where it's focused on the success of the individual, who's finding a way to harness the creative powers that every person has embedded in their soul, and finding a way to use these tools to accelerate that process. So, I want to go back to how you started with this idea, where you are now, this course. I mean, you're wearing all ASU maroon here today, which is fantastic. And that gold thing underneath, I mean.

Now, by the way, I did ask an A.I. to dress me as if I was Will.i.am. You should see this picture. I've only shown it to my wife and one of my less cynical children. So, Will, how did you come to this point?

Now, you've been doing a lot of things. You've been making a lot of stuff happen. You've been creating across all kinds of dimensions. How did you get this going?

Thank you so much. Thanks for, you know, trusting in FYI.AI and our vision and focus. But I got here one year on my birthday in 2005. I wanted to do something and not celebrate it.

I was like, I want to go to work. That was the year you turned 30. Yes. And I'm like, I want to go to Bande Aceh for tsunami relief.

So, I flew out to Indonesia to do tsunami relief. And as we were there doing this food drive with UNICEF, I realized that there's a tsunami in the neighborhood that I'm from every single day. A tsunami of neglect. A tsunami of, you know, cradled a prison pipeline.

A tsunami of crime. A tsunami of, you know, poor zoning where, you know, there's a liquor store, a check cashing, a strip club, bad food, right next to the elementary. And that combination is, like, designed. And I just found, like, wow, what can I do?

If I'm here in Indonesia for tsunami relief, what can I do in my neighborhood? So, I was like, when I get back home, I'm going to go to my neighborhood and adopt a school. And so, I went to Hollenbeck Middle School and, you know, did research on, like, how much it would have cost and what type of tools to bring to my neighborhood. So, I was like, I want to bring a robotics program and a college prep program.

So, when kids graduate, there's a job waiting for them. Because the last thing you want to do is have a kid have debt and a diploma. Especially coming from my neck of the woods. That's horrible.

How are they going to pay that debt off? Especially if there's no jobs waiting for them and they just have a diploma and debt. If they have robotics, there's a job for them. Guaranteed.

And so, we went in 2008. Started the program in 2009. And now we serve over 15,000 students in LAUSD. And over 400 schools with our robotics program.

We've sent, you know, thousands of kids to four-year colleges. ASU being one of them. And then I'm like, what else can I do? So, I went to Harvard.

And while I was in Harvard, I was learning off of our AI agentic tool. How do we build this tool? Well, I was lucky enough to invest in companies super early. Like Tesla in 2007.

Invested in OpenAI in 2021. Anthropic. When Dario left. Hugging Face, which is a repository for open source models.

Loveable, which is text to code. And Advise. Got in early on the seed round. So, we get access to models before they're out there to play around with and reconfigure whether they're open source or open weights, APIs.

And when I was learning there, I would go to class with just my phone. And folks would be like, how are you rocking it in class with just your phone? I don't see a notebook. I'm like, I configured an agent and I conversed with my agent.

It's my study buddy. While other folks are just like copy paste. But when you're engaging in conversation, you're absorbing it differently. You're bantering.

You know, it's really pushing your critical thinking when you're in conversation. And that's what I would do in class. I would snap all the stuff on the whiteboard, come back to my agent, I'm like, yo, what's this about? This is an area where I don't really understand.

Break this down for me from the perspective of x, because I don't understand this y. And so then it would meet me where I am. I'm like, yo, if we could make this for everybody, and then magically, you appeared in our office. So there's an awesome lady, by the name, who works with us named Julie Pilot, who was like, well, I graduated from ASU, and the president of ASU wants to come and talk about FYI.ai.

And usually, I'm like, OK, let me get ready to pitch. When you're like, yo, I want that for our students, I'm like, wait, I don't have to pitch? Damn. And then from there, I'm like, yo, can I design my office to be the campus?

And then we'll go back and forth between Arizona and LA. And so once I got a thumbs up to design our building, we hold about 70 people in our facility. It's 70,000 square feet of office space. A wing of our campus now is a literal classroom.

So I was like, if I design it so people feel the way I felt when I'm in Harvard, but every single mic is connected to a recording council, and all those questions get fed into our H100s on premise so that people can access an agentic professor when they leave the class about what we discuss, like, yo. And that's what we built. We have an agentic classroom where you can access the professor's co-star 24-7 about everything ever discussed in class. That's how I got here.

And wait till you see what we do next. So the fact that I have you two trapped on this stage, the leader of the largest college and the wildest creator of AI tools to enhance learning, and as you already said, the board has asked you, your own governing board, which are the representatives of the people, and they appoint you. You're the person they appoint. And you're tasked now bringing this all together.

So how do we take the millions and millions of millions of people over, let's say, a 10-year time frame that are a part of the California Community College and make certain that whoever shows up there, they leave empowered by these tools, because this is the first opportunity where we've had something like what Will is talking about, the building of this agentic self, the building of these agentic assistants, these agentic tutors that could work with anyone. I mean, aren't we just lucky to be alive right now? And then there's the reality of life inside an organization where people are threatened by technology, or they're concerned about this. Rightfully so.

I mean, they're concerned about the rate of change, the types of change. I mean, so how do you, as the master leader of this organization, how do you facilitate and accelerate this innovation around this harnessing AI, just like we say on the title, to be pro-human in education, work, and society? How do we do that? Yeah, I mean, I believe in life.

Things tend to come together. The right energies come together at the right time to make things happen. And last year, we host a future summit. And I've already invited Will.i.am to the future summit.

He said yes, but there's only this issue of a calendar. And of course, we're going to invite Michael Crow. Michael, you're invited as well. And last year, when I was on this stage, I talked about agentic AI.

And I talked about this being the future of the greatest equalizer. And to hear you say the same words today was just so fantastic. At the same time, we have the development, as I'm reading, open claw, right? And then the debacle where personal information can get out there, and the risks associated with it.

So how do you really balance the boldness of doing something right when you're fighting the equity battle for your students? I mean, that's what Will is saying at the very essence, right? He said, I want to give this tool that builds human agency to every Californian that needs it so that they can compete. But the reality is, it's the privileged who find the tool.

It's not those that we serve as community colleges. So the California community colleges, it's almost a moral obligation that if we don't show up, and if we don't find the tools to be able to build that human agency using the agentic self, then what we're doing is we're part of the problem of widening power gaps, of widening wealth gaps, of widening health gaps. So that is a moral obligation. So as I was talking to Sean and Christian, the idea that we're at the system office.

We've got fantastic colleges. We've got 116 of them. And many of the presidents are already engaging to see how we can bring FYI.AI into the classroom. But at the system level, what we do is we create demonstration projects.

And then we evaluate the demonstration projects before we go to scale and ask for state funding. So in order to do that, our faculty need to be, you know, one of your panelists, Michael, were talking about co-developers and co-creators. So these are not end users. The concept of end users out of the door, right?

Now the idea is when we have co-developing with our faculty, that ownership automatically builds in the trust and brings it into the classroom. And another part of it is to have students engage with it. You know, the other day, I was working with one of our students, Maria. And I was talking about a tool.

And the first thing she did is she went to Reddit. And then she's talking about how it's been great in bringing in the critical lens, which is absolutely critical for us to use. Another aspect that our board of governors had put out there, our board of governors had to do an assurance to our unions. We have faculty unions.

We have classified professional. One of the things we really sort of promised is jobs, you know, job security. So we adopted the humans principle, H-U-M-A-N-S. And I'm spelling it out because each letter stands for a principle, which is our promise to our staff that we are going to commit to.

And one of those promises, and I'll kind of wrap up with this piece, is algorithmic fairness. And you know, we had a student who was in an immersive technology environment. And the avatar that was being created did not represent the individual, right? So the student pointed it out.

So that commitment to having students in the test case. So in this particular case, when I was checking out the course and working with Sean on this, you know, there are certain pillars that this course really goes through. And the first pillar, the first pillar is about ethics and the responsible use. And can you imagine AI literacy being imparted to our community college students?

Think about those apprenticeship students, right? Don't think about those who are going to UC Berkeley or to Stanford. But think about that apprenticeship student who has an agentic self working with them in that particular environment. I mean, that is incredibly, incredibly powerful.

And learning all the concepts of guardrails while they are building, building as they're learning. These are powerful concepts that are standing principles in community college instruction, working on projects and learning and doing at the same time. My last thing is that we have been dabbling with several, you know, we've got a Nectar AI play lab that are talking about assistance, course assistance, to be able to have that interaction for a student to be able to understand the content. I think this particular project is going to take it to the next level and is going to be able to have our students visualize the best case of themselves that they can, you know, toss all the shackles of their real lived life experiences that have been difficult.

They can really transcend into what is possible and then be able to educate in that economic, social mobility kind of a way. So the promise is incredible. Now, what we need to do as community colleges is take the tool out to these students. Yes, so I appreciate that very sophisticated and eloquent conceptualization of how to make this work.

I'll say also that this notion that somehow these tools are to replace faculty couldn't be further from the truth. They're to enhance faculty, to improve the numbers of graduates that we produce, the lowering of the cost to the student of having to spend so much time in the process and so forth. So we're very much of that view. Now, Will, you have leapt ahead and built this project, and I think it's going to be a great success.

I think it's going to be a great success. I think it's going to be a great success. I think it's going to be a great success. I think it's going to be a great success.

this course with students in Los Angeles and students in Phoenix and you've been moving back and forth and dealing with students and they're all engaged together and we're coming up on the end of the semester.

So what is an agentic self? How do you build an agentic self and how are these students who in your class are ranging from like 18 to their 60s, how are they doing? So I'll go back to 2015. I joined the 4th Industrial Revolution Board at the World Economic Forum and they wanted me to also sit on their AI Council Board.

And so one of the meetings that we had, Mark had a Salesforce lunch and he asked the CEO of Bank of America, the CEO of Red Cross, Marissa Meyer at the time, the CEO of Yahoo and Al Gore and then myself. What is the future look like five years from now or what does it look like 10 years from now? Everyone talked about what the world looked like from their POV, their vantage point from their company. So I'm like, it's 2015.

I'm like, what now am I gonna say? Am I gonna be talking about my beats? Am I gonna be talking about our tours? I just felt really uncomfortable of being last after everyone I mentioned.

And so I remember what we were talking about at WEF, World Economic Forum, the whole week. And this was the wrap up lunch for the whole week. And at that 2015, we were talking about identity theft from refugees stealing people's identity to come into the UK or Europe. We were talking about financial identity theft from Bank of America's point of view.

We were talking about identity theft all across every domain. So I'm like, oh, oh, oh, I know exactly what to say, what the world looks like five, 10 years from now. So I said, hey, as we sit here talking about identity theft, I am not my driver's license phone number. I'm not my passport number.

I'm not my bank account number. Those are things I have, but that's not who I am. I am my searches. I am my spell check.

I am my location. I am what I've searched. I am my data. And we give that away for free.

We are our data. It's when identity makes your data, it's identity. And so after I left, the economist editor was like, we want you to write a column in The Economist called The Identity. So what is agentic self?

It's that vision I saw at WEF in 2015, which was pretty accurate because around that time in 2020, there was a movie called The Greatest Hack where the extraction and manipulation of everyone's data, everyone has an iPhone or an Android device, that operating system is not yours. You just have access to it. You're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, that's not yours either. You're actually the product.

You use these chat GPTs, which is a great product, but it's not yours either. Meanwhile, all of your personal information is in every company's data center. These companies know you more than you know yourself. Your husband knows you, your wife knows you, your religion knows you, your country knows you, your professors know you, your school knows you.

They can predict you down to what you're gonna, man, I think Instagram's listening to me. No, they're predicting you down to the core of who you are. So what is agentic self? It's you taking the power of your data.

Back after that documentary, they're like, we want our data back, but what are you gonna do with it? Where are you gonna put your data? There was not even a product for you because like I said, iOS is not yours. You can't ask Siri, hey Siri, who has access to my camera and my microphone right now in the past week?

It knows, but it can't tell you that. It knows what's in your cookies and what's accessing your mic and all that other stuff, but you don't know who's accessing your microphone and cameras and the cookies at any given time. You're walking around in the breast room sitting on the toilet for extra long using the device, and you don't even know that the device is using you. If you were to take all of the bank's money and put it all together, all of our money that we put in the bank, and you compare a company that houses our money versus a company that houses our data, which is more valuable, the banks or meta?

You know the answer. So what is agentic self? It's finally there is a system that's yours. So when we teach the course, we give our students a personal GPU.

We called up Jensen at NVIDIA like, yo, I'm teaching this course. Can NVIDIA hook up our students with a GPU? Worst thing that was gonna happen, they were gonna be like, that's a good idea, Will, but no. They were like, yeah.

I'm like, yo, what the what? That's what's up. So what is agentic self? It's taking your data, putting it on a GPU at home.

Like think about right now, you would not buy a house that didn't have a bathroom that's yours. You wouldn't buy a house that didn't have a kitchen that's yours. Imagine buying a house and be like, excuse me, Mr. Realtor or Mrs.

Realtor, where's my kitchen and bathroom? And they said, oh, oh, oh, it's right down the street. The whole neighborhood shares the same restaurant and a kitchen and refrigerator. That shared refrigerator is called the supermarket.

And you go there and you take the stuff from their cupboards, their cabinets, their refrigerators and put it in yours. Now, what's the equivalent of that for your data? What's the equivalent of that for a personal owned agent? Right now we're sharing a village agent, similar to sharing the same toilet.

And that shared agent that you have access to is more personal than anything. That is the most personal as it gets. Imagine, husband and wife have an issue. They say, babe, maybe we should go see a therapist.

Now imagine the therapist is like, hey, look, here's what y'all need to do. Why don't y'all swap phones? That's how y'all gonna get over this hump. You use her phone and she uses your phone.

Most people wouldn't even do that. So what is agentic self? Agentic self is a system that is yours, just like my digestive system is mine. My immune system is mine.

If my mom is sick, I'm like, mom, what's wrong? Really, I don't know, mom, I got, my stomach hurts. I can't be like, hey, mom, listen, I got it. Let me take care of that digestion for you.

These things are insane to even think about. So why would you do that with your data? Why would you give the most personal stuff about who you are to a company's data center? In your house right now, you don't even have a GPU, but you got a refrigerator, you got a toilet.

Some of y'all even upgraded and got the freaking toilet that washes you for you. But you don't got your own freaking personal data center for you and your family. You give it away. The most valuable commodity on earth is individual data and then the aggregate of that, which is community data.

When everyone has an agentic self at East LA College and they opt in to have an aggregation of it, you can now call East LA and talk to East LA. I can't call California right now. This vision is like, poof. Think about what the world was like in 2006.

There was no App Store. There was no apps. There was no iOS. In 2006, when Steve Jobs and those guys, they were not phone makers, by the way.

Nokia was the king. Blackberry was the king. Motorola was the king. These guys at Apple were like, hey, what's up with this phone stuff?

Let's do something audacious. And they made a phone that didn't have a keypad on it and changed the world because of this thing called iOS. And that gave birth to the Ubers. There was no Uber, by the way.

Think about what Uber did to civil rights. Civil rights protesters and government officials tried to solve cabs stopping for people that look like me and brown folks in New York, couldn't solve it. Indirectly, Uber solved an issue of data. That person's not a criminal.

That person has a good data. Look at his or her points. They're five stars. Let me stop for that person.

Uber did that. Not a march. Tech. So what transformation's gonna come from 2026? 2027, the agentic devices don't exist yet.

The device in you are for humans to use. OpenClause telling you that there's devices that are coming for the.

agent to use. And from that perspective, the person, the individual, and the communities that they live in should be the apple, the ones that benefit from this new technology. That is where we are.

Agentic self is liberation. The French gave America a torch. This era is giving every single person a torch to illuminate their path through this digital verse. It's so deep.

You can't swim in it. You can't find. It's too vast. You don't got the time to figure it out.

That's why deepfakes are deepfake. How are you going to freaking decipher a deepfake? Everything looks real. Everything sounds real.

You think our brains can maneuver and know the truth through it? We couldn't even figure it out in 2016. We couldn't figure it out in 2020. As this technology gets more and more advanced, everyone needs an agentic self.

Because we no longer just live in the real world. We also live most of our waking moments in a screen. That screen's not for our brains. It's not.

We need to spend more time human to human while your agentic self does all that digital shit. So I think a lot of people would agree with that. And where we're focusing on it is a place where Sonya and I are really focused, which is the enablement, the empowerment of this learner through the agentic self. And so in the couple of minutes that we have left, your wish list from Will.

So you got Will over here, who's creative to the max, who's facilitating this not just technology, but this revolutionary conceptualization about the empowerment of a human being through these technologies. What do you need from Will? What kinds of things are going to work in the East LA Community College, which is a part of your system, and in the Compton Community College, which is part of your system, and in other places, in communities where they've never had access to this kind of empowerment through this tool that could be ubiquitously made available to literally everyone? So what do you need?

So on April 8, there was this article in The New York Times that talked about the new aristocracy, which is the haves and the have-nots really widening. And the California Community Colleges, if we were to say what is our single purpose to exist, it is really to elevate every individual who lives here in California. And moving into the age of AI, the hope that the vision that Will was describing to you, which was, whoa, I got goosebumps, by the way, to have the 2.2 plus million. And by the way, we're not stopping at 2.2.

We're going to hit that $3 million, I mean, 3 million students, 4 million students. That's the way we need to go. So the question is going to be in the implementation. So to go from that vision for every student, particularly in our workforce, in our apprenticeship, in our career education courses, how do we start with leverage so we can scale up quickly?

So from one or two or three colleges, the California Community Colleges have a digital center of innovation, transformation, and equity. Think of those three words, right? Innovation. You heard countries talking about having innovation as a pillar, ASU's pillar.

Innovation, transformation of each individual student through individual human agency, and looking at it through an equity lens. So we're going to create a project within our digital center. And we're going to be bringing our faculty to the table. Because the faculty members engage within, that's when the multiplier effect is going to happen.

And by creating the faculty and then multiplying it 10 times, 10 times in every semester, we're going to reach out pretty, pretty fast. And I can promise you that when we come back in April of 2027 for the next ASU GSV, we will have numbers and accountability. And we'll do it with humans in the center. We will do it with protecting data, which you said it so well in your descriptions, protecting our student and our faculty data.

Because we will do it right in the California Community Colleges. So appreciate that. So Will, that says that we're out of time, and it's yellow. It's going to turn red in one second.

And that blue thing says we're done. So what I need from you, what I need from you is, what would you most need from Sonia in the kind of time frame that she's talking about? What do you most need to scale a gentic self at the community college level? You're already working with several community colleges.

You're working with us. What do you most need? What's the single thing you most need? There was a joke that was said earlier.

Do you ask somebody the same thing? So capital is important. Capital? For you academics, that's money in this sense?

So up to this point, I like to go out and invest in companies. But when it comes to my company, I find it myself. Because I don't know how to. That's not what I've mastered.

Mark Benioff helped kick off our A round. But scaling, we now have product market fit. We now have a mission. Because the wave is coming.

You're seeing job displacement happening now. So the thing that is going to keep people safe from corporations replacing humans with agents is a human with their own agent. And so capital, partnership, partnerships that reflect what we've done. ASU, our JV with ASU is beautiful.

Edufy, we took an FYI, partnered with ASU to create Edufy. And our staff is about to grow. ASU really supported us with that. Thank you so much for your partnership.

When it goes into community colleges, really partnering with East LA College and Compton College. Because they know the community better than any corporation could say or claim they can from the data they've aggregated. The community, they have a different reason and purpose and vibe of what their mission is. When it's just data and only data, and a company is like, I understand it more than you understand it.

They're coming with a different reason why they want to show up in the community. We want to meet the community where the community is at. Specifically for what the community needs. And provide tools and mentorship.

So I remember my first day teaching. When we played the Super Bowl, I was kind of nervous. But I already knew how to improv my way out of that. The reason why I was nervous my first day of class is I didn't know my way out of if something were to happen.

I couldn't improv it. So that was the most daunting, inspirational moment. But after I got through it, I'm like, oh, this is the next 20 years of my life. This is what I'm doing for the next 20 years.

I could tour this. I could take this all around the world, like I took the Black Eyed Peas around the world. But not for money, for change. Not to get rich.

I ain't getting rich doing this. But we're going to make change doing it. All that money chase, we've done that. But the purpose behind what this next 20 years looks like, thank you.

I already see myself, I'm going to be some version of this when I'm 70, because I'm 50. And I'm going to remember this moment like I remember when I signed up for the next 20 years of my life. And it's going to be fan-freaking-tastic. I'm still going to look the same, because you know what I'm saying?

Still going to look the same. All right. So with that, we're going to end it and say thank you. Thank you.

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*This transcript was put together by our friend [Philippos Savvides](https://scaleu.org) from Arizona State University. The original transcript and additional summit resources are available on [GitHub](https://github.com/savvides/asu-gsv-2026-summit-intelligence). Licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).*
