Solutions with Henry Blodget

  • An Extraordinary Gene Editing Treatment Could Mark a Turning Point in Medicine

    In the summer of 2024, a baby named KJ was born with a rare disease with a 50% mortality rate. Six months later, he became the first patient to receive personalized gene editing therapy. He…


  • Wildfires Are Only Getting Worse. What Can We Do?

    Dr. Kira Hoffman once fought fires as a firefighter. Now she works on starting them – for the sake of wildfire prevention. Dr. Hoffman is a fire ecologist at the University of British Columbia and…


  • Is U.S. Air Travel in Crisis?

    Recent high-profile tragedies, FAA understaffing and underinvestment, and ballooning TSA lines during the government shutdown have many questioning whether U.S. air travel is as safe as we’ve been told — but what’s the reality? And…


  • Most Americans Support Legal Immigration. Why Can’t We Enact Clear Policy?

    One of the biggest issues in the last few elections has been… immigration. And yet: most Americans support legal immigration and a path to citizenship, and aren’t worried about immigrants taking their jobs. So why…


  • The Jagged Frontier: How AI Will Transform Your Job, According to Wharton’s Ethan Mollick

    Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and author of the Substack One Useful Thing, describes today’s AI systems as a “jagged frontier,” where AI outperforms humans in some tasks but falls short in others. This unevenness…


  • We Can Live Forever Through Digital Twins. But Should We?

    What’s it like to talk to a “digital twin” of a relative who died before you were born? How will the increasingly lifelike digital representations of people change how we grieve? Amy Kurzweil deeply considers…


  • Reasons to be an AI Jobs Optimist

    More than three years into the AI era, the predictions of an AI job apocalypse are still coming fast and furious. Here are reasons to be more optimistic. Harvard economist and researcher David Deming studies…


  • Why AI Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans

    Elon Musk says humanoid robots represent the biggest business opportunity in the history of the world. But what problems do these robots actually solve? And why do they have to look like humans? We pose…


  • Could AI Doctors Be Better Than Humans? This Physician Thinks It’s Possible.

    Dr. Robert Wachter has been a physician for decades, and he thinks that in the future, you might prefer an AI doctor over him (at least sometimes).  Dr. Wachter is the Chair of the Department…


  • China Is Winning. How Can the U.S. Catch Up?

    The U.S. is falling behind in its economic competition with China. One potential solution? An expansion of executive power. That’s according to investor and contributing New York Times columnist Steven Rattner. Rattner served as counselor…


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