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
134 episodes
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, we talk with philosopher and ethicist Carissa Véliz about AI ethics, AI privacy, predictive AI,...
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...
The Wild Story of “Octavius Fabrius,” the World’s First AI Agent to (Kind of) Land a Job, w/ Dan Botero
Something I don’t usually say: This is one of my favorite conversations I’ve ever had in the AI space. Truly. The setup: What happens when an AI agent stops being a tool and starts acting like a coworker?In this episode of
The Moltbook Moment: Human Agency in an Agentic World
What happens when AI agents start talking to each other in public, at scale, and we have to figure out how humans fit into that world?In this episode of AI-Curious, we explore the “Moltbook moment” through a special live panel rec...
Jeff’s Musings on Moltbook, Why it Matters, and Why it (Probably) Won’t End Humanity”
What happens when a social network is built for AI agents, not humans, and millions of bots start posting, debating, and “performing” identity in public?In this episode of AI-Curious, we break down Moltbook, the agents-only social platfo...
AI Adoption Case Study Masterclass, w/ WCCB’s Krista Snelling & Matthew March
What does it take to make AI adoption stick in a high-stakes, heavily regulated industry, without triggering job-loss panic?In this episode of AI-Curious, we have a hyper-specific case study of AI adoption. Host Jeff Wilser talks ...
Deep-Dive Into Agentic Workflows, w/ Cognizant’s Head of AI
What happens when software stops just “chatting” and starts acting in the real world, across real workflows, with real consequences?In this episode of AI-Curious, the Head of AI at Cognizant goes deep on AI agents and agentic workflows: ...
The CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown: AI is Creating Jobs, Not Killing Them
Is AI quietly creating more work than it’s replacing, and are we measuring the job market the wrong way?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with the CEO of Upwork, Hayden Brown, about what the platform is seeing across the global free...
How to Make Human-First Tech Decisions, w/ Tech Humanist Kate O’Neill
What does “human-first AI” actually look like when you have to make decisions under pressure, hit numbers, and keep trust intact?In AI-Curious, we talk with Kate O’Neill — “the Tech Humanist” and author of What Matters Next — about how l...
Deep-dive on AI and Creativity, with The Man Designing the World’s Creative Tools (Eric Snowden, Adobe’s SVP of Design)
What happens when the world’s most-used creative tools get smarter — and creators worry they’re losing the wheel?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Eric Snowden, Senior Vice President of Design at Adobe, about how Adobe is w...
AI Broke the Web’s Social Contract, w/ Tony Stubblebine, CEO of Medium
What happens when AI can “read the whole internet” but the internet stops volunteering its best work?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Tony Stubblebine, CEO of Medium, about what he calls AI’s “broken social contract” with the ...
The “Talk With Einstein” AI Rule You Should Follow, w/ New Yorker Cartoonist Victor Varnado
Is AI making creators more powerful… or more replaceable? And if you start with a blank page for a living, there’s an even sharper question underneath it: should AI write for you… or write with you?In this episod...
The New Year Reality Check: Who’s Really Adopting AI, w/ Ramp Economist Ara Kharazian
What’s actually happening with AI adoption inside U.S. businesses—and how much of the public discourse is just vibes?In this episode of AI-Curious, we dig into the hard numbers behind AI spend and adoption with Ara Kha...
How AI Will Reshape the Economy, w/ Anindya Ghose, the Director of AI at NYU Stern
What does an AI-driven economy actually look like when you zoom out far enough—and what does that mean for jobs, power, and policy?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Anindya Ghose (NYU Stern; author of Thrive
AI in Hospitals: Less Burnout, Fewer Errors, Better Care? w/ Dr. Michael Karch
Could AI actually make healthcare more human—less paperwork, less burnout, fewer errors—or is it mostly hype layered on top of a legacy system?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Dr. Michael Karch, an orthope...
Leveraging AI to Go from Doer to Leader, w/ Miri Rodriguez, former Storyteller at Microsoft and CEO of Empressa.AI
Could AI help you lead—not just do—especially if you’re thinking about building something entrepreneurial?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Miri Rodriguez, formerly a “storyteller” at Microsoft, now the C...
Inside the Wild World of "AI Agent Traders", and What That Means for the Rest Of Us, w/ PIP CEO Saad Naja
Could AI agents become better traders than humans—and what happens when “decision-making” gets outsourced to software that can act at machine speed?In this conversation, we go deep with Saad Naja, founder of PIP World, on t...
Can AI Help Eradicate Poverty? How AI is Helping African Farmers and Teachers, w/ Opportunity International's Ama Akuamoah & Paul Essene
Can AI actually help eradicate poverty for real people, right now—not in some vague future?We talk with two leaders from Opportunity International who are trying to do exactly that, using AI to support smallholder farmers and low-cost pr...
How We Got Here and Where We're Going: AI History (and Future) w/ Vasant Dhar, Author of Thinking with Machines
Is AI making us smarter or dumber—and how do we make sure we’re on the right side of that divide?In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Professor Vasant Dhar, author of the new book Thinking With Machines: The Brave New W...