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The Agentic Self asks students to tackle real problems, with funding available for three projects.
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ASU All Access: “The Agentic Self” taught by will.i.am returns to ASU
An AI agent that joins your video calls is only the starting point. In Arizona State University's most-watched new upload, will.i.am wants students to choose a problem and build an agent that can help address it.
The musician and tech founder returns in "ASU All Access: "The Agentic Self" taught by will.i.am returns to ASU", explaining how the course combines practical AI skills with responsibility. Students sign a "declaration of codependence" with their agents, putting empathy and ethical use alongside the technical work. He also challenges them to research problems in the Global South. Three projects will receive funding through Amazon Web Services.
This is the university's own campus programming, and the teaching assignment gets a personal reflection rather than just a course pitch. "Arizona State is monumental and fundamental to the person I'm going to be when I'm 71," will.i.am says. The segment has reached roughly 5,300 views and carries the strongest daily momentum among the channel's highlighted uploads.
Across fifteen new uploads, the week stretches well beyond AI. "Inside ASU's Black Widow Lab" introduces research into how Western black widows cope with hotter urban environments. Zeke Jones previews a wrestling roster potentially featuring several first-year starters, while Emma leads a West Valley campus tour. A student guessing game about employability and Jackson's Downtown Phoenix tour are also drawing fresh viewing.
Subscribers stayed unchanged, but daily views across the channel are well above their usual level. Among the education channels shown alongside ASU, only YaleCourses added more views over the week. ASU's distinctive contribution is the breadth: a classroom agent, a spider lab and a walk across campus all belong in the same university week.
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- Channel
- Arizona State University
- Subscribers
- 218,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 772,848
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 5,336
- Views on its first day
- 357
The numbers
Here is how Arizona State University's viewing and subscriber totals moved this week.
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Which video-call platform does will.i.am mention his students' AI agents can join?
He describes agents joining Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls alongside their users.