What's Your Problem?
Hosted by Jacob Goldstein · iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries
4.6from 511 ratings
- 222
- Episodes
- 119
- Transcribed
- 511
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 812K
- YouTube views
About What's Your Problem?
Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Feb 2022
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
119 of 222 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Should We Pause AI?
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus: Planning for Your Financial Future
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can a Robot Kill Fish Humanely?
Inside a recent episode
Should We Pause AI?
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like the question of, you know, who do they think of themselves as being? And what do they care about, right? Where do they put value, right? And so the main thing is that there was this theory going around for a very long time by people who said, essentially, AI can only care about local reward. AI can only care about the output that it's particularly giving out, and what results will happen directly from that, because that's all it's being trained on. So it's like, solve this puzzle, and you get a prize, basically. And all it can care about is itself, this instance, this agent solving the puzzle, because all it wants is to get the prize. […]
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- Zvi Mowshowitz
- Christine Chase
- Saif Khawaja
- Catherine Nakalembe
- Lara Jehi
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 812,267
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 257 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 254 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts What's Your Problem??
Jacob Goldstein host the show. Published by iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries.
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