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."
Episodes
120 episodes
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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52:57
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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49:57
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:22
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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41:06
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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43:01
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
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43:51
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 115
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46:21
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 114
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35:50
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 113
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44:08
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 112
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46:06
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 111
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42:30
How San Jose is Harnessing AI (and What We Can Learn From It), w/ Mayor Matt Mahan
Can a city use AI to cut red tape, fill potholes faster, and shave minutes off commutes—without sliding into surveillance? We sit down with San José’s mayor, Matt Mahan, to unpack how a highly regulated public institution can adopt AI pragmatic...
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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35:08
The Complicated Intersection of AI and Creativity, w/ Dr. Maya Ackerman
Does AI make us more creative—or quietly replace us?In this episode of AI-Curious, we sit down with Dr. Maya Ackerman—author of Creative Machines: AI, Art, and Us—to probe where human creativity ends and machine creativit...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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39:22
LinkedIn's Chief AI Officer, Deepak Agarwal, on AI Agents, Building Responsible AI, and the Future of Work
What does hiring look like when AI is embedded into the world’s largest professional network—and how should leaders, recruiters, and job-seekers adapt?We sit down with Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn’s Chief AI Officer, for a practical playboo...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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48:43
Why GEO is the New SEO--And How Businesses Must Adapt--w/ Curtis Sparrer, co-founder of Bospar
Will GEO replace SEO? (Spoiler alert: Probably!) We dig into how generative engines are reshaping discovery, why executives are already making decisions from AI answers, and what brands should do now to show up accurately and cr...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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40:10
Space Robots Are Here *Now*, w/ Icarus Robotics cofounders Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer
What happens when “space robots” stop being sci-fi set dressing and start punching a clock? We dig into a new breed of microgravity robots that do the unglamorous work—so astronauts can do more science.In this episode of AI-Curious
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Season 1
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Episode 106
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41:51
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 105
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41:46
How AI Could Help Solve Climate Change, w/ Climate Tech Expert Josh Dorfman
AI is often framed as a climate problem—energy-hungry data centers, ballooning carbon emissions, and talk of nuclear power just to keep the servers running. But could AI also become part of the solution?In this episode of AI-Curious<...
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Season 1
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Episode 104
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45:19
Can AI Be Funny? With ComedyBytes’ Eric Doyle
Can artificial intelligence actually be funny, or is humor still a human stronghold? We explore that question with Eric Doyle, co-founder of ComedyBytes, a Brooklyn-based multimedia comedy show where AI and humans face off in roast battl...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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39:54
The New Jobs That AI Might Create, w/ Robert Capps (NYT Magazine Contributor)
Is Kant the new code? If AI can write, code, and even plan, which human skills suddenly become scarce—and valuable?In this conversation with Robert Capps (former Editorial Director of Wired, contributor to...
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Season 1
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Episode 102
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51:35
AI and Education: Inside the AI Solution Partnering with Denver Public Schools, w/ Dr. Michael Everest
Could AI actually improve public education? Not just automate it, but make it more personalized, more equitable — and even more human?We explore this possibility with Dr. Michael Everest, founder of edYOU, an AI tutoring platform ...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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47:39
AI's Impact on History Writing and Journalism, w/ The New York Times Magazine's Editorial Director Bill Wasik
What happens when AI becomes a co-pilot for writers, researchers, and journalists — not in theory, but in practice?In this episode of AI-Curious, we speak with Bill Wasik, Editorial Director of The New York Times Maga...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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48:43
The (Data-Driven) Top AI Trends, w/ the CEOs of HumanX and Read.AI
What are the top minds in AI actually talking about behind closed doors?At the HumanX conference—arguably the flagship event in the AI ecosystem—hundreds of speakers (from CEOs to policymakers to Kamala Harris) shared their unfilt...
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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43:47
Introducing "AUI": Artificial Useful Intelligence, w/ IBM's Chief Scientist Dr. Ruchir Puri
What if we’re all chasing the wrong kind of AI? Dr. Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist of IBM, argues that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is overrated—and that we should be focusing instead on AUI: Artificial Useful Intelligence. This is a pra...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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47:08
A Conversation with the AI Pioneer Who Coined ‘AGI’ — Dr. Ben Goertzel
What exactly is AGI—Artificial General Intelligence—and how close are we to achieving it? Will it transform the world for better or worse? And how can we even tell when true AGI has arrived?In this episode of AI Curious, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 97
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