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All talks by Tim Berners-Lee
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Every AI platform you use is quietly building a file on you. They call it "memory" and say it improves the experience. Maybe, but your preferences, finances, relationships, and intentions are accumulating inside systems you don't control and can't see into. We've watched this pattern before, with the web itself. Sir Tim Berners-Lee saw the web's centralization coming and built an alternative. Now he's pointing it at AI. With Inrupt CEO John Bruce, he'll walk through Charlie — an agent that sits between you and the tools you already use, deciding what each one actually needs to know and keeping your data portable rather than locked to one platform. The premise is simple and far from settled: AI can be useful without owning you.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 25 years ago. So it’s worth a listen when he warns us: There’s a battle ahead. Eroding net neutrality, filter bubbles and centralizing corporate control all threaten the web’s wide-open spaces. It’s up to users to fight for the right to access and openness. The question is, What kind of Internet do we want?
At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.