AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser
A podcast that explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence. Weekly longform conversations with key players in the space, ranging from CEOs to artists to philosophers. Exploring the role of AI in film, health care, business, law, therapy, politics, and everything from religion to war.
Featured by Inc. Magazine as one of "4 Ways to Get AI Savvy in 2024," as "Host Jeff Wilser [gives] you a more holistic understanding of AI--such as the moral implications of using it--and his conversations might even spark novel ideas for how you can best use AI in your business."
AI-Curious with Jeff Wilser
AI Agents, Digital Twins, and the Future of Work, w/ Read.AI CEO David Shim
What if “AI teammates” aren’t sci-fi at all, but the next mundane tool that quietly kills Monday dread?
In this episode of AI-Curious, we sit down with David Shim, CEO of Read.ai, to unpack what workers actually want from AI, how teams are adopting agents from the bottom up, and what a practical “digital twin” might do at work—minus the Black Mirror vibes. We cover fast-path ROI (meeting notes → action items), the shift from “prompts” to ambient workflows, and why the most valuable corporate asset may soon be the storage of intelligence—the living record of how your organization thinks and decides.
What we cover
- Why 70% of workers say they want AI agents—and what basic tasks deliver real ROI now
- A crawl-walk-run roadmap: note-taking → briefing → follow-ups → lightweight agents → digital twin
- “Storage of intelligence” as a competitive moat (institutional knowledge that doesn’t walk out the door)
- Guardrails, data separation, and how to make privacy concerns non-negotiable
- Bottom-up adoption: why employees are forcing IT’s hand—and how leaders should respond
- The macro view: augmentation vs. replacement, and the provocative idea that AI replaces computers (as the interface)
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