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In the past few days, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web inventor whos still reshaping our digital lives, has sparked buzz with fresh warnings on AI and data control. A YouTube video from a December 2025 interview, titled The Inventor of the Web Issues a Warning on AI, captures him dissecting global politics liberal decline and pushing digital sovereignty 2.0, while plugging his memoir This is for Everyone. He laments saddening political shifts and calls for AI that empowers rather than exploits, no eureka myths just steady invention grind.

Euronews Next reports his November Web Summit chat in Lisbon still echoing into now, where he pinned hopes on 2025 as the year of digital human rights, predicting a backlash against polarizing social media algorithms that amplify toxic tweets to millions for clicks. Blame the platforms profit chase, not just posters, he insists, urging standardization waves for data rights and sovereignty via his Solid project personal data Pods as secure digital IDs to thwart bots.

The Media Leader highlights his ongoing quest at the Webs 35th anniversary this month, via a recent Financial Times piece, to decentralize via Solid and Inrupt, building data wallets like Charlie AI agents that link your finances health even spot cancer early without Big Tech gatekeeping. He eyes interoperability think email across providers for social media plus regulation as last resort since platforms prioritize anger over good.

No major public appearances or social media mentions pop in the last 48 hours, but his Internet Archive Hero Award from October, celebrated in a Commonwealth Club talk with Brewster Kahle now podcasted, underscores his enduring push for open webs. Solid and Inrupt buzz as biographical game-changers, potentially liberating data by the Webs 50th.

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