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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

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22:55

Context Is King for AI Agents, w/ Bianca Anghelina...

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2026/10/01

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 explore why “context is king” in the age of AI agents, and why even the most powerful models can struggle inside companies if they do not understand how the business actually works. Bianca and Stefan both work with AI agents inside large enterprises, where su...

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43:53

The AI Robot Already Working in Grocery Stores, w/...

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2026/09/17

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 stores understand what is actually happening on their shelves. Simbe is focused on store intelligence through its shelf-scanning robot, Tally, a six-foot autonomous sensing robot used by major retailers across grocery, club, home improvement, and other high-volu...

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52:17

How TIME Is Building for AI Agents, w/ COO Mark Howard

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2026/09/10

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 AI agents, AI crawlers, and machine-readable content. TIME is now operating across what Mark describes as two internets: one built for human readers, with photos, design, layout, and the familiar red border, and another built for machines, stripped down into...

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61:25

Why AI Will (Probably) Never Become Conscious, w/...

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2026/09/04

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 become conscious. Anil is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he directs the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. We explore why Anil believes today’s AI systems are not conscious, why language and intellige...

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42:52

How to Govern AI Agents, w/ Samantha Gloede of KPMG

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2026/08/27

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 govern AI agents at scale. KPMG is deploying and advising on AI across a global workforce and client base, giving Sam a rare view into how enterprise AI is actually working beyond the hype. We explore what a governed agent fleet looks like, why AI agents need ...

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40:40

Are You Subsidizing AI Data Centers?, w/ Ari Peskoe

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2026/08/07

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, director of the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard Law School, about the growing fight over AI data centers, electricity demand, and who should pay for the infrastructure behind the AI boom. As AI usage grows from simple chatbot prompts to more compute-heavy agenti...

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58:47

Why Businesses Need to Become AI-First, w/ Kevin Surace

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2026/07/23

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 conversation moves beyond the question of “what is AI?” and into a more urgent business reality: how companies, workers, creators, and leaders should actually use it. We talk about why Kevin believes companies are falling behind when they treat AI as a procure...

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57:29

The Real Risks of AI and Nuclear War, w/ Ankit Panda...

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2026/07/16

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. Ankit is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of The New Nuclear Age. Andrew is a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and faculty director of the Berkeley R...

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59:23

Why Google DeepMind Is Using EVE Online to Train AI,...

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2026/07/09

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 company and why EVE may be one of the hardest tests for artificial intelligence. EVE Online is not just a space game. It is a persistent virtual civilization with player-run economies, alliances, corporations, spies, propaganda, logistics, years-long wars, and...

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50:00

The Real-World Impact of AI, w/ Sharon Goldman

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2026/07/02

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 (most recently senior reporter at Fortune) who’s now the founder of Ground Level AI, which focuses on the real-world impact of the AI boom: infrastructure, data centers, cybersecurity, enterprise adoption, policy, geopolitics, and the communities affected by it...

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29:17

The Case for Merging Brains and AI to Save Humanity,...

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2026/06/25

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 arguments in AI: we cannot stop AI, we cannot control AI, so humans may need to enhance themselves to stay at the center of civilization. Scott lays out the thesis behind his TED talk, including why he believes conventional AI guardrails may not be enough, why...

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38:09

The Missing Half of AI: Geospatial Intelligence, w/...

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2026/06/18

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 geospatial AI, GIS, and why “where” may be the missing context in so much of today’s AI conversation. We explore how maps become far more powerful when they layer in infrastructure, weather, sensor data, supply chains, demographics, and risk, and how AI can help t...

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52:01

Inside the Real Bleeding Edge of AI Workflows, w/...

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2026/06/11

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 workflows power users are building right now with AI coding tools, research agents, and custom automation. We explore how Elijah uses tools like Claude Code, Codex, and third-party harnesses to move from idea to MVP fast, build internal apps for real business probl...

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57:26

How AI Agents Could Change Shopping Forever, w/ Chi...

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2026/06/04

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 Zhang, cofounder and CEO of Kite, about agentic commerce and the infrastructure that could make AI agents true economic actors instead of just helpful assistants. We explore what it means to let an agent not only research flights, groceries, APIs, or consumer go...

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16:12

A Master Class in Vibe Coding: How Mojo Agentic AI...

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2026/06/01

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 company is Mojo Agentic AI. And his revenue, with zero outside funding and a Fortune 100 client roster, is on track to clear $30 million this year. In this episode of AI-Curious, Arthur walks us through how he did it — a master class in vibe coding, the agen...

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52:44

Unified Intelligence and the Future of Creative AI,...

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2026/05/22

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, about the company’s bet on “unified intelligence” and why that may be a fundamentally different path toward AGI. We explore why Luma believes training across modalities together, instead of building separate models and bolting them together later, could unlock more natur...

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46:06

Why The Future of AI May Be Smaller Than You Think,...

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2026/05/15

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, about why the next phase of AI may depend less on giant cloud models and more on small, specialized models that run directly on phones, laptops, cars, and other edge devices. We explore the case for on-device AI, why large models are only part of the story, and how companies sh...

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46:45

Why “Shadow AI” is the Biggest Business AI Story No...

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2026/05/07

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 CEO of Witness AI, about the rise of “shadow AI” inside enterprises and why it has become one of the biggest practical challenges in AI adoption. We explore how employees, often with good intentions, are quietly using ChatGPT, Copilot, and thousands of other AI...

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37:08

When AI Forecasts Become Self-Fulfilling (and Who...

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2026/04/23

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, and the hidden power of algorithmic decision-making. We explore how AI systems used in hiring, lending, insurance, and other high-stakes settings can become self-fulfilling prophecies, shaping outcomes rather than simply measuring them. We also examine the growing privacy risks ...

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42:27

How AI Will Impact Your Job Search, w/ LinkedIn’s...

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2026/04/16

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, the rise of AI literacy, and why deeply human skills may matter more than ever. We dig into LinkedIn’s “Skills on the Rise” research, what employers are actually looking for now, and why the shift toward skills-based hiring is changing how people get hired, pr...

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