About this episode

Josh Tyrangiel discusses how AI is being used to solve significant problems in healthcare and beyond.

Josh Tyrangiel is the author of “ AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter .” On today’s show, Josh talks about some of these real people and the problems they’re working on: a professor trying to understand her nonverbal son, a general who delivered millions of Covid vaccines in 2021, and a hospital CEO trying to reduce the rate of deadly infections.  In this episode, Josh explains:  Where AI is helping to reduce hospital infections (and where it’s struggling) Why distributing the Covid vaccine was almost as hard as creating it Why convincing people to use AI is often the hardest problem to solve  Why we should use nuclear weapons as a model for regulating AI Connect with us: Follow Jacob Goldstein on LinkedIn , X and Instagram Email us at problem@pushkin.fm   Follow Pushkin on Instagram , LinkedIn or X   Listen to Jacob’s other show, Business History  To listen to the show early and ad free, sign up for Pushkin+ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Jacob Goldstein

Guest: Josh Tyrangiel

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• healthcare
• Covid vaccine distribution
• hospital infections
• regulation of AI

Keywords

• AI
• healthcare
• Covid vaccine
• hospital infections
• regulation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Covid, Pushkin, iHeartPodcasts

Books & works: AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter

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