Alex Wilson

Knight Lab Fellow

Alex serves as a Knight Lab Fellow. He also works at Vianai Systems, an AI unicorn based out of Palo Alto, Calif., where he leads product marketing. When not at work, he's being bossed around by his son, wife and goldendoodle.

Projects

Projects Alex Wilson has worked on.

AI Eye on SpringfieldCovering the Illinois General Assembly

It's been said: “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.” Nevertheless, it falls to political journalists to keep tabs on the activities of legislatures that are churning out a stream of bills every session. Is there a way to apply large language model AI systems to help journalists keep up with the action and zero in on potential stories?