Can a Robot Build Better, Cheaper Houses?Jason Ballard is the co-founder and CEO of ICON. Jason’s problem is this: Can you use 3-D printing to build houses that a […]

Did AI Write This?Celebrated novelists, countless students and at least one billionaire have recently been accused of using AI in their writing. The most commonly […]

Blockers | A Preview of Michael Lewis’s New AudiobookI’m here with a preview of Blockers, a new audiobook from Michael Lewis, the author of Liars Poker, Moneyball, T […]

Can We Defeat Deepfakes?We’ve all heard that nothing ever gets deleted from the internet. Luke Arrigoni says that just isn’t true. His company deletes tho […]

The Printing Press: The Invention Built on Debt and Sin… from Business HistoryBefore 1450, books were written out by hand. It was slow and expensive. But Johannes […]

Should We Pause AI?Everybody’s worried about the risks of AI. So we called up one of the most insightful writers we know on the subject: Zvi Mowshowitz. Zvi w […]

Bonus: Planning for Your Financial FutureOn this bonus episode of What’s Your Problem, Jacob talks to Christine Chase, a Vice President, Financial Consultant at F […]

The Quantum Shift in Biomedical Discovery from Smart Talks with IBMWhen Dr. Lara Jehi began treating epilepsy patients in the 2000s, critical surgical decisions […]

Can We Slow Down Aging?Nir Barzilai is a physician and a researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he runs the Institute for […]

Why Doctors Use Evidence but Managers (Mostly) Don’tHelen Pearson is the author of the book “Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works.” Helen’s probl […]

The Job AI Was Supposed to KillIn 2016, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the inventors of modern AI, predicted that AI would replace radiologists within years. Ten years […]

How China Won the Car IndustryAfter spending decades as marginal players in the global auto industry, Chinese carmakers have become the world’s biggest e […]

Using Viruses to Fight DiseasePhages are viruses that attack bacteria. People have been using phages to treat infections for over a hundred years, but in most […]

How AI Could Reduce InequalityDavid Autor is a labor economist at MIT. He has written about how the arrival of personal computers increased inequality among […]

Racing Wildfires to Warn the PublicJohn Mills is the CEO and co-founder of a nonprofit called Watch Duty. His problem is this: How do you build an app to warn […]

How AI Could Actually Make the World BetterJosh Tyrangiel is the author of “AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That M […]

Finding Meaning (and Money) in the AI AgeBetsey Stevenson is a labor economist at the University of Michigan, and she was an economic adviser to President Obama. […]

Using Pokémon Go to Map the WorldMaps have gotten much better over the past few decades. But they’re still mostly two dimensional, and they struggle to keep up w […]

The Company Where Everyone Has Their Own AI AgentDan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a company that publishes newsletters about AI, develops […]

Inventing a Better AppleThe apples you can buy at the grocery store have gotten profoundly better over the past few decades. It’s a kind of everyday, h […]