Solutions with Henry Blodget

Solutions with Henry Blodget

We hear enough about our problems. Let’s solve them. Every Monday, journalist, analyst and entrepreneur Henry Blodget interviews leading thinkers across business, tech, politics and beyond about their big ideas for how to build a better future. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episodes

Reasons to be an AI Jobs Optimist

March 16, 2026 • 69 mins
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 technology and the future of work. He’s dug into technological shifts of the past for clues about what might happen to the U.S. labor market now, and he’s even quantified the rapid rate of adoption of generative AI. Deming do...
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Why AI Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans

March 9, 2026 • 49 mins
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 those questions and more to Dr. Jonathan Hurst this week, one of the pioneers of modern robotics. He’s the co-founder and Chief Robot Officer at Agility, which makes a humanoid called “Digit," which is actually working in warehouse...
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Could AI Doctors Be Better Than Humans? This Physician Thinks It’s Possible.

March 2, 2026 • 53 mins
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 of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a best-selling author. To report his most recent book, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future, he spoke to over 100 experts across medi...
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China Is Winning. How Can the U.S. Catch Up?

February 23, 2026 • 47 mins
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 to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration; he was known as President Obama’s “car czar,” for leading the team that saved the auto industry in the wake of the financial crisis. Today, w...
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The Future of Mind-Controlled Computers, According to Neuralink’s Rival

February 16, 2026 • 50 mins
When Elon Musk started Neuralink in 2016, he tapped leading neurosurgeon Ben Rapoport to join as a co-founder. But two years later, citing safety and scalability concerns, Rapoport left to co-found a rival company: Precision Neuroscience. Today, we speak with his co-founder, Michael Mager, about what sets Precision apart, the future of brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and what Precision has already been able to achieve with over 7...
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Solving the College AI Crisis

February 9, 2026 • 46 mins
Jeff Selingo is not impressed with how colleges are responding to AI. Selingo has spent decades covering higher education and work, and recently spoke with dozens of professors, administrators, and students about what he calls “the campus AI crisis.” While some faculty are still trying to ban the new technology entirely, others struggle to build smart programs to teach students how to use AI. So what is the right way for colleges t...
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Legendary VC Bill Gurley: How to Thrive in Your Career

February 2, 2026 • 51 mins
Bill Gurley is a legendary venture capitalist known for backing Uber, Zillow, GrubHub, and many others. But when he started his career, he thought he was going to be a computer engineer. How did he make the pivot? That is just one story Gurley tells in his upcoming book, Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love. In this episode, Gurley shares his words of wisdom, and, of course, we ask his thoughts on the c...
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Why OpenAI Won’t Survive an AI Crash

January 26, 2026 • 54 mins
Venture capitalist, writer, and researcher Paul Kedrosky thinks it's likely that in the near future, an AI crash will cause widespread damage to the economy—but he's still optimistic about the technology anyway. Today, he tells us why, and shares his boldest predictions about AI, including why OpenAI won't last, and why he'd bet against any of the Mag 7, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How to Stop a Global Economic “Doom Loop”

January 19, 2026 • 46 mins
Economist Eswar Prasad believes the world’s economic order is stuck in a doom loop. While globalization has increased global prosperity, it’s also left many people behind. That has set off a global “politics of resentment,” enabling the rise of populist leaders who promise a return to economic independence and nationalism. So what do we do about it? Despite the title of Professor Prasad’s new book, The Doom Loop: Why the World Econ...
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Your Devices Are Already Tracking Your Brain Waves. Should You Be Worried?

January 12, 2026 • 57 mins
Your devices could soon be decoding your most intimate thoughts. It’s just a matter of time, according to neurotechnology expert Nita Farahany. There are already devices on the market that track our brain waves, from rings to smartwatches to new products like Meta’s neural band. How do we safeguard our cognitive liberty? Nita Farahany is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and the author of The Battle for Your Bra...
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Lessons from the Crash of 1929 for the AI Bubble

January 5, 2026 • 55 mins
If we're truly in an AI bubble close to bursting, how do we avoid economic catastrophe? That's a question we bring to Andrew Ross Sorkin this week, whose new book, 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, has as much to say about the present as it does the past. We ask Andrew what warning signs he sees in the market, how the government should respond to a crash, and what lessons from the 1920s apply toda...
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Why Companies Should Embrace Remote Work

December 15, 2025 • 43 mins
The data is in: remote work is better for everyone. At least when it’s done right. Stanford Economics Professor Nicholas Bloom has been studying hybrid work since before the pandemic, and he says that companies that have embraced remote work have seen gains in productivity and retention while lowering costs. So why are executives at JP Morgan and Amazon ordering employees back? Today: Professor Bloom explains his data-backed recomm...
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Scott Galloway Says Men Should “Protect, Provide, and Procreate”

December 8, 2025 • 66 mins
Best-selling author, podcaster, and professor Scott Galloway is worried about men. He sees them falling behind and he thinks the left, especially, is overlooking their crises. So he’s provided his own guidance in a new book, “Notes on Being a Man.” Part memoir and part advice, Galloway argues that a man’s job is to “protect, provide, and procreate.” Today we ask: where does that leave women? What can be done to help young men, espe...
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How AI Data Centers are Raising Your Electric Bill

December 1, 2025 • 56 mins
Electricity prices in the US are skyrocketing. What’s going on? We asked Vox correspondent Umair Irfan, who covers energy policy, to explain. Plus, why Irfan says clean energy could be a winning issue for Democrats. And not because it’s better for the planet, but because it’s cheap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Business Insider Embraced AI. How’s It Going?

November 24, 2025 • 51 mins
Business Insider recently told its reporters they could use AI to write first drafts of their stories. It was a notable decision by editor-in-chief Jamie Heller, and made BI one of the first mainstream media outlets to embrace AI. We ask Heller what exactly AI is being used for in the BI newsroom. Plus: what skillsets still feel way out of ChatGPT’s reach, and why this is still a good time to get into journalism. Learn more about ...
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How Can American Politics Recover from Trump?

November 17, 2025 • 45 mins
John Harris, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Politico, is a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist. In this episode, we appeal to his optimism and ask how the US can recover from its current politics of contempt. Harris shares his analysis of President Trump as the most successful third-party candidate in American history, casts doubt on the fantasy of the “rational center” candidate, and considers what it might take for...
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It’s Time for Medicare for All

November 10, 2025 • 57 mins
In the 1990s, Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler did something her colleagues at Harvard called “crazy:” she decided to work with a senator named Bernie Sanders on healthcare reform. Dr. Woolhandler had already founded an advocacy group called Physicians for a National Health Program, which declared the for-profit healthcare system broken and proposed one solution: single-payer national health insurance. (Or, as Sanders calls it, Medicare f...
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Kids Should Have a Driver's License Before a Smartphone

November 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Have smartphones destroyed a generation? That was the title of a viral essay by Dr. Jean Twenge in The Atlantic in 2017, which first catapulted her work into the spotlight. For years before The Anxious Generation, Dr. Twenge (who now collaborates with Jonathan Haidt) was raising the alarm about social media use and teen mental health. Now, Dr. Twenge has released clear guidelines for parents on how to manage the technology in thei...
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The New Digg Wants to Bring Back a Peaceful Internet

October 27, 2025 • 69 mins
Roughly 20 years ago, Digg was known as the homepage of the internet. The social and news platform was so big that Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit, referred to it as “the enemy.” But things have changed, and this year, the site's original founder Kevin Rose teamed up with Ohanian to revamp and relaunch Digg. Now, in this age of AI, the new Digg is betting on the long-term value of real human connection. Kevin Rose tells Hen...
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You Can (And Should) Change Your Personality

October 20, 2025 • 53 mins
Certain personality traits can determine how happy you are, sometimes more than income and IQ. That’s according to author and journalist Olga Khazan. Hoping to shed some of her more neurotic personality traits, Khazan recently set out to change her personality for the better… and succeeded. Today, Khazan tells us how. Plus: we hear about another recent discovery — why Khazan thinks she might be “doomed to be a tradwife.”  Learn mor...
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