Jeff Wilser

Speaker. AI Strategist. Author. Journalist. (@NYTimes, Wired, TIME, etc). AI/Web3 @CoinDesk. Host of the podcasts @AiCuriousHQ and @The_Peoples_AI.

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

Personal news!

I’m launching a new podcast: “AI-Curious.”

The pod explores the good, the bad, and the creepy of artificial intelligence.

Weekly conversations with key players in the space, ranging from CEOs to artists to philosophers.

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[AI-Curious @AiCuriousHQ]

"We can't stop AI. We can't control AI."

That's the premise behind one of the boldest conversations we've had on AI Curious.

D. Scott Phoenix (@fuelfive), shares why he believes the real challenge isn't stopping AI, it's deciding what humanity does next.

So here's the real question:

If AI keeps getting smarter... what's humanity's next move?

🎙️ Full conversation is live.

Links are in the replies.

#AICurious #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

"So what'd you do for work today?"

"Mostly tell Claude Code, 'Always Allow.'"

[AI-Curious @AiCuriousHQ]

At this year's TED conference, one talk became the conversation everyone wanted to argue about.

D. Scott Phoenix (@fuelfive), Partner at @fiftyyears, believes we can't stop AI. We can't control it. His answer? Humanity may have to become something more than human.

Jeff Wilser (@jeffwilser) sat down with him to unpack one of the most uncomfortable questions in AI today.

Curious where the conversation goes next?

🎙️ The full episode is now live. Links are in the replies.

#AICurious #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

[The People's AI @The_Peoples_AI]

AI companies: "Your data is yours."

Also AI companies: "Good luck moving it somewhere else." 😅

Open banking solved this years ago.

Maybe AI should take notes.

From the latest episode of The People's AI, presented by @vana:

Links in the comments.

#AI #OpenBanking #DataPortability

[The People's AI @The_Peoples_AI]

AI wants to be open...But today, most AI systems are still walled gardens.

Your data, preferences, and history don't move easily from one model to another. True data portability remains one of AI's biggest unsolved challenges.

Ironically, one of the best examples of open data comes from banking.

So what can AI learn from the success of open banking?

🎙️ @jeffwilser is joined by:
• Eyal Sivan ("Mr. Open Banking")
• Chris Skinner
• Dr. David Birch

To discuss data portability, trust, digital identity, AI-native finance, and the future of open ecosystems.

🎧 New episode now live: @The_Peoples_AI, presented by @vana.

Links below 👇

#AI #OpenBanking #DataPortability #Fintech

[The People's AI @The_Peoples_AI]

🚨 AI News

Visa + OpenAI are teaming up for AI-powered commerce and agent-led payments.

The obvious question:

What happens when AI starts banking for you?

Tomorrow on The People's AI, presented by @vana, we explore why open banking may hold the playbook AI needs for trust, identity, consent, and financial data.

🎙️ Featuring:
Eyal Sivan
Chris Skinner
David Birch

New episode tomorrow.

#AI #OpenBanking #Fintech #AgenticAI

[elijah @unbounded_0x]

Was a blast to sit down and riff with @jeffwilser last week. Thanks for having me on @AiCuriousHQ!

We're in exciting times. Once LLM token costs trend downward, we'll see models be more accessible to the mass populous, and hopefully some incredible new tech and innovation start to come out of it.

[AI-Curious @AiCuriousHQ]

What if building an app in 45 minutes becomes normal?

Or even building a company in days?

@jeffwilser sat down with Elijah Spencer, Chief of Staff at @0xMiden, for a fascinating conversation about the AI workflows, research systems, and agentic tools quietly reshaping how people work.

We get into:

• AI agents for research + trend tracking
• Building products faster than ever
• The future of AI-powered companies
• Why most people are overcomplicating AI

This one will change how you think about what’s possible.

🎧 Watch/listen now

Full links in comments ↓
🔗 https://t.co/n5PmhFdr2b

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

TLDR: Lincoln tries to have the AI write for him...but then thinks better of it.

"It says everything I mean," he told Bates, "in nobody's voice at all."

This is lovely.

@AnthropicAI, 👏

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

Now, this is obviously not apples-to-apples. Every Claude response now goes through a filter of custom instructions of how I want it to act -- that didn't exist in Chat 3.5.

And Claude has loads of context and memory about me.

But still.

A few more excerpts...

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

Notable:
-Fable focused on specifics over generalities (better writing)
-Grounded the scenes (without being told) in real-world historical figures
-Decided to weave in a meta-commentary on the legitimate uses and limitations of AI.

Consider this next bit, on AI and writing...

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

Again - exact same prompt. This is how the story starts...

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

At the time, I was impressed with 3.5. It made plenty of logic problems (how could he use social media if he was the only one with the iPhone?), but it made real attempts at being creative. This wasn't just scraping the internet.

Flash forward 3 years.

To Fable.

To today.

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

First, some context. This was one of the very first prompts I gave ChatGPT in March of 2023. Word for word.

Here's ChatGPT's response. 3.5 I believe.

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

I just asked Fable:

The results were stunning. 🧵

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

Kite is accelerating the transition to an agent-first economy by establishing the infrastructure for secure, verifiable, and autonomous commerce. Here is what we delivered this week:

1️⃣ Our Head of Ecosystem @Henryleemr introduced the Kite Agent Passport at #BitcoinSeoul2026, connecting with global institutions to define the next generation of machine-native payment rails.

2️⃣ Our Co-Founder and CEO @ChiZhangData joined @proofoftalk at the Louvre to lead a panel on "Personhood, Provenance, and Verification," exploring how decentralized identity secures interactions in the agentic age.

3️⃣ Our VP & Head of BD @lei_lei0904 joined the @csuitepodcast at Consensus to discuss the trust requirements of agentic commerce, highlighting that the x402 payment extension has now facilitated over 100 million transactions.

4️⃣ We outlined a vision for how the Kite Agent Passport enables autonomous trading on platforms like Polymarket, allowing agents to execute signal-based trades within strict, user-defined policy bounds without ever holding a hot wallet.

5️⃣ We joined @billions_ntwk as a launch partner for their collaborative AI agentic movie, supporting 500+ builders using the x402 payment extension to turn agents into filmmakers through secure micropayments.

6️⃣ We are serving as an official partner and judge for @Bitget_AI’s Hackathon S1, supporting a $50,000 prize pool for developers building natural-language trading strategies.

7️⃣ Our Co-Founder @ChiZhangData appeared on @jeffwilser’s @AiCuriousHQ podcast to unpack the structural shift toward agentic commerce and why autonomous customers are arriving faster than expected.

8️⃣ We continued the Kite Community Growth Plan with a new AI sharing session on professional motion graphics and announced our upcoming Kite Image Guessing Game for the community.

The rails for the autonomous economy are being laid across the globe. 🪁

[KITE AI @GoKiteAI]

When AI agents do the shopping, your most important customer might not be a human at all.

On @jeffwilser's @AiCuriousHQ podcast, our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData unpacked where agentic commerce actually stands today, and why it's arriving faster than most people expect.

▷ The shift is structural: when agents buy on your behalf, businesses start selling to agents, not people. If an agent can't discover you, you're invisible.

▷ It's already a one-way ticket: Shopify first blocked agents, then opened its catalog to them. Visa, Mastercard and Google are all moving in.

▷ The hard part isn't the checkout, it's trust and payments. Kite is the layer that lets your agent pay safely, without ever handing over your credit card.

"Agentic commerce is coming sooner than people think."

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

"Agentic commerce is coming sooner than people think."

That's @GoKiteAI CEO @ChiZhangData on the new episode of @AiCuriousHQ.

I hosted the AI Summit at @consensus2026 this year--Agentic Commerce was our core theme. It used to feel abstract.

Now it's getting real.

Link ⤵️

[KITE AI 中文 @KiteAIChinese]

当 AI Agent 替你购物，你最重要的客户，可能根本不是人类。

在 @jeffwilser 的 @AiCuriousHQ 播客里，我们的联合创始人兼 CEO @ChiZhangData 拆解了 agentic commerce 当下究竟走到了哪一步，以及为什么它来得比大多数人想象的更快。

▷ 这是结构性的转变：当 Agent 替你下单，企业卖的对象就从「人」变成了「Agent」。如果 Agent 搜不到你，你就是隐形的。

▷ 这已经是一张单程票：Shopify 先是封禁 Agent，随后又开放了商品目录。Visa、Mastercard、Google 都在入场。

▷ 难的从来不是结账，而是信任与支付。Kite 就是那一层，让你的 Agent 安全地付款，全程不必交出你的信用卡。

「Agentic commerce 来得比人们想象的更快。」

[Jeff Wilser @jeffwilser]

I used to joke, "If you are a goat herder, good news, your job will not be impacted by AI.

If you are NOT a goat herder, your job will almost certainly be impacted by AI."

No longer.

Sorry, goat herders.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

this is just the most ridiculous AI application i've ever seen lol

a Peter Thiel-backed startup that makes AI collars for cows is now worth $2 billion

and the more I read about it the cooler it gets. here's how it works:

every cow wears a solar-powered collar that talks to a network of radio towers and an app on the farmer's phone

instead of building physical fences, the farmer draws the fence on a map in the app, and the collar keeps each cow inside that invisible line using GPS

when a cow drifts toward the edge, the collar plays a sound to steer her, and a gentle vibration tells her which way to go.

it's like how a car beeps as you back up toward a wall

the cows learn the cues in a few days

so now a rancher can move an entire herd to fresh grass by sliding the fence on a map, without driving out to open a single gate

and that same collar is reading each cow's body the whole time.

it takes five readings per second on every animal, so the AI can catch a cow that's sick, injured, ready to breed, or about to give birth before a person would ever notice walking the field

so it's basically like WHOOP for cows too lol

and they gave the AI behind it the perfect name: the Cowgorithm

it's been trained on more than 7 billion hours of real cow behavior, which is why Halter calls the data its real asset and moat.

they know what a normal cow looks like better than anyone, so they can flag the odd one out instantly

it's already on more than 1M cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and a bunch of US states.

California even used it on public land to graze cattle in patterns that clear dry brush and slow down wildfires

costs about $5 to $8 per cow per month

a job that used to mean barbed wire, gates, and driving the fields all day is now mostly 1 person on their phone