Sinovation Ventures CEO Kai-Fu Lee joins 'Influencers with Andy Serwer' to discuss how artificial intelligence will raise new concerns over data privacy.

Video Transcript

ANDY SERWER: When you talk about crossing domains, it sounds to me a little bit like the metaverse, and I'm wondering how AI and the metaverse are connected, or if they are at all, in fact.

KAI-FU LEE: Absolutely. I think, you know, in the metaverse, there will be other beings. And there will be people who are themselves, but there will also be other beings-- you know, pets and aliens and games and other people. And I think it's a lot more interesting and fun if there are a mixture of real people and-- and virtual people. So I think AI will be a part of that.

And then the-- in the truly natural metaverse, we will be conversing using our language and our body language, and-- and AI can, of course, provide an ability to understand that. And in the metaverse, here is a tricky and maybe a little bit scary question is, well, the programmer of the metaverse, the company that builds the metaverse, will actually listen in on every conversation and watch every person.

And that, on the one hand, can make the experience very exciting, because it can see what makes you happy and give you more of that. But then, what is the notion of privacy in a metaverse? So I think a lot of excitement, I think, in combining these two technologies.