AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser
Every week, Jeff Wilser sits down with the people building, breaking, and reckoning with AI — from the CEO of Upwork to the pioneer who coined "AGI" to an AI social network where bots wrote manifestos and had existential crises. Wilser is the author of eight books, AI keynote speaker, and the kind of interviewer who'd rather find the story no one's telling than rehash the headline everyone's read. Named by Inc. Magazine as one of the best ways to get AI-savvy. Included in UC Berkeley's data science curriculum.
Episodes
151 episodes
The AI Productivity Paradox, w/ Andrey Khusid, Nasrin Mostafazadeh & Imad Riachi
Why are so many people getting faster with AI, while their companies still move at the same speed?In this episode of AI-Curious, we bring you a live panel conversation from HumanX Amsterdam with Andrey Khusid of Miro, Nasrin Mostafazadeh...
Context Is King for AI Agents, w/ Bianca Anghelina and Stefan Ostwald
What if the biggest limitation of AI agents is not intelligence, but context?In this episode of AI-Curious, we bring you a live panel conversation from HumanX Amsterdam with Bianca Anghelina of Aily Labs and Stefan Ostwald of Parloa. We ...
The AI Robot Already Working in Grocery Stores, w/ Simbe’s Ben Bond
What happens when AI stops living only on screens and starts measuring the physical world?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Ben Bond of Simbe about physical AI, retail robotics, and how autonomous robots are already helping sto...
How TIME Is Building for AI Agents, w/ COO Mark Howard
What happens when AI agents become the audience?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Mark Howard, Chief Operating Officer of TIME, about how one of the world’s most iconic media brands is preparing for a web increasingly shaped by...
Why AI Will (Probably) Never Become Conscious, w/ Neuroscientist Anil Seth
Will AI ever become conscious, or are we mistaking intelligence for inner life?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with neuroscientist Anil Seth about one of the biggest questions in artificial intelligence: whether AI can truly becom...
How to Govern AI Agents, w/ Samantha Gloede of KPMG
What happens when AI agents move from small experiments to full enterprise deployment?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Samantha Gloede, KPMG’s Global Head of Risk Services and Global Trusted AI Leader, about what it takes to g...
Are You Subsidizing AI Data Centers?, w/ Ari Peskoe
Here’s a concise Apple Podcasts/Buzzsprout-ready version based on the Ari Peskoe transcript and its timestamps.Are ordinary people helping pay for Big Tech’s AI build-out?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Ari Peskoe, dir...
Why Businesses Need to Become AI-First, w/ Kevin Surace
What does it really mean for a company to become AI-first?In this episode of AI-Curious, we welcome futurist and keynote speaker Kevin Surace back to the show to explore how AI has changed since our last conversation two years ago. The c...
The Real Risks of AI and Nuclear War, w/ Ankit Panda & Andrew Reddie
What happens when artificial intelligence enters the most dangerous decision-making systems humans have ever built?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Ankit Panda and Andrew Reddie about the real risks of AI and nuclear weapons. ...
Why Google DeepMind Is Using EVE Online to Train AI, w/ CEO Hilmar Pétursson
Can a 23-year-old video game help train the next generation of AI agents?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, about why Google DeepMind has invested in the c...
The Real-World Impact of AI, w/ Sharon Goldman
What happens when AI stops being just a software story and starts showing up in towns, power grids, zoning fights, data centers, and business workflows?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Sharon Goldman, longtime AI journalist (m...
The Case for Merging Brains and AI to Save Humanity, w/ D. Scott Phoenix
What if the only way to stay human in the age of AI is to become something more than human?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with D. Scott Phoenix, partner at 50 Years and co-founder of Vicarious, about one of the most provocative a...
The Missing Half of AI: Geospatial Intelligence, w/ John Lenahan
What if the most important part of AI is the part nobody talks about, not the chatbot, but the map underneath the world?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with John Lenahan, Head of Esri’s Global Commercial Services team, about geosp...
Inside the Real Bleeding Edge of AI Workflows, w/ Elijah Spencer
What does the bleeding edge of AI actually look like inside a small team, before the big labs turn it into a polished product?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Elijah Spencer, Chief of Staff at Miden, about the practical workfl...
How AI Agents Could Change Shopping Forever, w/ Chi Zhang
What happens when your next customer is not a person, but an AI agent shopping on their behalf? The way we buy things online may be about to change a lot faster than most people realize.In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Chi Zha...
A Master Class in Vibe Coding: How Mojo Agentic AI Hit $30 Million With a Team of One
In a year when the frontier AI labs are spending tens of billions on training runs and scaling their teams into the thousands, one of 2026's fastest-growing agentic AI companies has exactly one employee.His name is Arthur Vandelay. His ...
Unified Intelligence and the Future of Creative AI, w/ Caroline Ingeborn
What if the future of AI is not just better text, better image, and better video models stitched together, but something closer to a unified mind?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma AI...
Why The Future of AI May Be Smaller Than You Think, w/ Jeffrey Li
What if the future of AI is not bigger models in bigger data centers, but smaller ones running quietly on the devices you already use every day?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Jeffrey Li, COO of Liquid AI...
Why “Shadow AI” is the Biggest Business AI Story No One is Talking About, w/ Rick Caccia
It’s happening everywhere. And no one’s really talking about it. What happens when your employees are already using dozens of AI tools your company never approved?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Rick Caccia, co-founder and CE...
When AI Forecasts Become Self-Fulfilling (and Who This Hurts), w/ Carissa Véliz
What happens when an AI prediction does not just forecast the future, but helps create it?In this episode of AI-Curious -- recorded on location at this year's TED conference -- we talk with philosopher and ethicist Carissa...
How AI Will Impact Your Job Search, w/ LinkedIn’s Editor-in-Chief Dan Roth
What if the job you have today will soon require a completely different set of skills? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Dan Roth, Editor in Chief of LinkedIn, about what LinkedIn’s data reveals about the future of work, t...
5 AI Tools I’m Using Right Now - and How They Could Streamline Your Work
What does it actually look like to use AI tools in the real world, beyond the usual chatbot prompts and hype?In this episode of AI-Curious, Jeff Wilser shares five AI tools and workflows that are shaping how he works right now, from Clau...
How AI Will Change How You Work, w/ Kelly Monahan
What happens when AI stops being a productivity tool and starts reshaping the structure of work itself?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Kelly Monahan, a future of work and AI advisor, about what AI may actually do to the workp...
Creating an AI-First University, w/ Kogod Dean David Marchick
What happens when a business school decides AI isn’t a bolt-on elective, but the operating system for how students learn marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, and leadership?In this episode of AI-Curious, we’re back with David Marchic...
The Future of Media in the Age of AI: Misinformation, Attention, and Personalization (From Davos)
What happens when AI makes the news feel like it was made just for us, and the “objective” version quietly disappears?Here we have something of a “very special episode” of AI-Curious. I was recently in Davos during World...