Jeff Wilser

Denver

Freelance Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Speaker. Book Author. Journalist. (Words in @NYTimes, Wired, TIME, etc). AI/Web3 @CoinDesk. Host of the podcasts "AI-Curious" and "The People's AI."

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Anna Kazlauskas: Data Ownership in the Age of AI

1 month ago | coindesk.com | Jeff Wilser

You’re swimming in data. You’re creating new data every day. If your health app counts your steps? That’s new data. The Oura ring that’s tracking your bio-metrics? Valuable data. Your social media posts, even the stupid jokes that got zero likes? More data. This is all data that AI companies would love to harvest. You can’t build good AI without good data, which is why many view data as the “new oil’ in the race for AI.
Shaw Walters: ‘We’re Going to Automate All of the Jobs’

1 month ago | coindesk.com | Jeff Wilser

Someday you’ll be out of a job. So will I, so will your neighbor, so will your best friend, and so will all of your family. All of our jobs will be automated, thanks to AI. This is the prediction of Shaw Walters (who in Web3 style typically just goes by “Shaw”), founder of Eliza Labs, and creator of ElizaOS. STORY CONTINUES BELOWDon't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today.
Filecoin’s Clara Tsao: Building an Open and Trusted Internet

1 month ago | cryptostudent.io | Jeff Wilser

Did AI write the sentence that you’re reading right now? Did AI create the photograph you just saw online? Was the shocking, controversial story that tipped an election actually real, or AI-fueled misinformation? These are questions Clara Tsao has wrestled with for years, ranging from protecting national security (where she was the CTO of a team focused on countering homegrown extremism) to creating a better internet, where she’s co-founder of the Trust & Safety Professional Association.
Filecoin’s Clara Tsao: Building an Open and Trusted Internet

1 month ago | coindesk.com | Jeff Wilser

Did AI write the sentence that you’re reading right now? Did AI create the photograph you just saw online? Was the shocking, controversial story that tipped an election actually real, or AI-fueled misinformation? STORY CONTINUES BELOWDon't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today. See all newslettersBy signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy.
The Way We Work: Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper - Comstock's magazine

1 month ago | comstocksmag.com | Jeff Wilser

This story is part of our April 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. It’s not the usual career path.
Ben Fielding: Decentralizing Machine Intelligence

2 months ago | coindesk.com | Jeff Wilser |Benjamin Schiller

It started with a noisy desk. The desk was a wooden cubicle in a lab at Northumbria University, in northern England, where a young AI researcher began his PhD track. This was in 2015. The researcher was Ben Fielding, who had built a large machine stuffed with early GPUs to develop AI. The machine was so loud it annoyed Fielding’s lab-mates. Fielding crammed the machine beneath the desk, but it was so big he had to awkwardly stick his legs to the side.
The Way We Work: Lisa Cardoza - Comstock's magazine

2 months ago | comstocksmag.com | Jeff Wilser

This story is part of our March 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. Lisa Cardoza knows that college students can need help. She knows this because when she graduated high school as the valedictorian, she walked across the stage while five months pregnant. So when she entered college as a teenage mother, she was grateful for the help and guidance from her family, her teachers, her community and her financial aid officer.
The Way We Work: Kenny Pawlek - Comstock's magazine

Feb 20, 2025 | comstocksmag.com | Jeff Wilser

This story is part of our February 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. “Most people ask me, how can you work at a children’s hospital?” says Kenny Pawlek, administrator at Shriners Children’s Northern California. The work can be heavy. Shriners is the state’s largest provider of pediatric burn care, and each year 12,000 kids are treated for conditions ranging from scoliosis to spinal cord injuries to cleft lips. “I know it sounds incredibly difficult,” he says.
The Way We Work: Brad Squires - Comstock's magazine

Jan 15, 2025 | comstocksmag.com | Jeff Wilser

This story is part of our January 2025 issue. To subscribe, click here. Many CEOs like to say that they’re willing to “get their hands dirty.” Few take this as literally as Brad Squires.
The Way We Work: Lance Hastings - Comstock's magazine

Dec 11, 2024 | comstocksmag.com | Jeff Wilser

This story is part of our December 2024 issue. To subscribe, click here. Lance Hastings is a Sacramento lifer. “I applied to only one university in the entire state of California, and that was Sac State,” says Hastings, president and CEO of the California Manufacturers & Technology Association. “I put all my eggs in one basket.”Hastings did this because he was passionate about government, and Sacramento State is literally in the center of the government.