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Speaker 1: Pushkin. There are two main things we worry about when

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Speaker 1: we worry about AI. One Ai'll take all of our jobs,

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Speaker 1: or if it has, we haven't noticed. The bad news

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Speaker 1: AI models are hackable, they make dumb mistakes, and these

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Speaker 1: risks are here right now. I'm Jacob Goldstein, and this

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Speaker 1: is What's Your Problem, the show where I talk to

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Speaker 1: people who are trying to make technological progress. My guest

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Speaker 1: today is your own singer. Your own is the founder

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Speaker 1: and CEO of Robust Intelligence. Your own's problem is this,

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Speaker 1: how do you reduce the risks that AI is causing today?

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Speaker 1: Your own worked at Google and he was a computer

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Speaker 1: the story of the company starts before any of that.

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Speaker 1: Back when he was in grad school, he launched a

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Speaker 1: machine learning and conventional algorithms to look at data from

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Speaker 1: companies like Facebook. The idea was to mine the data

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Speaker 1: it just wasn't working.

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Speaker 2: We're getting the wrong answers. And at first I thought,

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Speaker 2: you know, it was just I couldn't understand why, and

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Speaker 2: the mathematical analysis is something that I felt like it

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Speaker 1: As your own goes on with his work at Google

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Speaker 1: basically automated systems where the AI gives you some output

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Speaker 2: The inconvenient truth is that when it comes to decision

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Speaker 1: So, just to be clear, this basic structure we're talking

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Speaker 1: and you're saying, you're finding that is fundamentally unreliable, like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's right. So, Like a simple example

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Speaker 1: Uh huh right, So, and so should I trust Google

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Speaker 1: And is this combination ubiquitous? I mean, when we hear

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Speaker 2: Generally speaking, this is this is why you know AI

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Speaker 1: Huh. So basically, you're the stress test that you provided

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Speaker 1: And in this instance, you found their errors and they're

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Speaker 1: on top of AI, doing things.

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Speaker 2: AI and top of AI kind of you know, these

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Speaker 2: these sort of actions of ordering things on Amazon, ordering

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Speaker 2: things off of Expedia.

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Speaker 1: You know, how do we how do we validate through AI? Exactly? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you have sort of an AI personal assistant that's

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Speaker 1: using chat, GPT and doing something in the world, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting to me to talk to you, right,

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Speaker 1: because everybody more or less is worried about the kinds

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Speaker 1: of things you're talking about, but like it's actually your

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Speaker 1: job to worry about them and to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to make these risks less risky or to contain these risks.

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Speaker 1: So I'm curious. I don't know, what do you think

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Speaker 1: people are not worried enough about? And what do you

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Speaker 1: think people are too worried about?

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Speaker 2: That's a great question.

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Speaker 1: What do you think people are too worried about? Start

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Speaker 1: with that one. What are you less worried about than

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Speaker 1: like whatever the average media.

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Speaker 2: Story I think people are maybe over worried about maybe

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Speaker 2: AI taking taking jobs away. I think those kinds of things,

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Speaker 2: or or killer robots. I think those things I'm less

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Speaker 2: worried about. And the reason I'm less worried about is because,

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Speaker 2: you know, with all the advancements that we have with AI,

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Speaker 2: I view AIS as being very limited. Again, I think

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Speaker 2: it's an amazing tool and an amazing like kind of

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Speaker 2: engineering capability that we have that provides for a lot

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Speaker 2: of efficiency. I personally view viewed in no way as

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Speaker 2: any replacement of you know, human intelligence, and maybe maybe

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Speaker 2: come from kind of like my deep study about the

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Speaker 2: sort of vulnerability and kind of like the incapabilities of

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Speaker 2: what AI can and cannot do. So I fundamentally am

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Speaker 2: not I'm not concerned about that. I am concerned about

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Speaker 2: about the way that people's expectations from AI, and they're

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Speaker 2: sort of like they're sometimes like a little bit of

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Speaker 2: the blind belief in the capabilities of AI and I

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Speaker 2: understanding its limitations. So those are the things that I

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Speaker 2: am a little bit worried about. I'm worried about people

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Speaker 2: using AI, you know, in critical decision making essentially not

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Speaker 2: realizing its limitations.

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Speaker 1: Huh. Interesting that both of those views come from your

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Speaker 1: understanding of the limitations of AI. Like it's limited, and

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Speaker 1: therefore in some ways we should be less scared of it.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to replace us, but in some ways

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Speaker 1: we should be more scared if people are using it

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Speaker 1: to decide very important things in the world, they might.

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Speaker 2: Be making bad decisions. You know, honestly, there's there's a

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Speaker 2: good community of professors or ex professors, including Jeffrey Hinton,

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Speaker 2: who's the godfather of deep learning and their oal networks

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Speaker 2: and AI. And you know, for these people who like

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Speaker 2: have like this fundamental understanding of the capabilities and the

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Speaker 2: kind of the behind the scenes of AI, then I

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Speaker 2: think those people we all share kind of that that

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Speaker 2: same attitude and then the same kind of fears. We

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Speaker 2: know that AI, you know, with all the great things

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Speaker 2: that it can do, we very much understand its limitations

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Speaker 2: and where these limitations are coming from, what it can

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Speaker 2: and cannot do. And our fear is that, you know,

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Speaker 2: society is putting a little bit too much trust in

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Speaker 2: those capabilities.

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Speaker 1: Are there particular domains where you're worried about that? Particular

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Speaker 1: domains where you think people are putting too much trust

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Speaker 1: in AI.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think that there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of them. I think I'm a little bit worried about

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Speaker 2: where it involves critical decisions, right, So critical decisions have

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Speaker 2: to do with healthcare. Critical decisions can be about you know,

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Speaker 2: financial decisions that are being made with with AI. Of course,

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Speaker 2: critical decisions can be can be done with national security.

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Speaker 2: So all those places. I'm yes, I have grave concerns

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Speaker 2: about people's like overtrust in AI.

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Speaker 1: You're the AI guy whose messages don't trust AI too much.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back in a minute with the lightning round.

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Speaker 2: M m.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're almost done. I just want to do some fast,

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Speaker 1: uh somewhat more playful questions. So I read that you

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Speaker 1: do weekly military style inspections at your company. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: And what does it mean?

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Speaker 2: They're they're really kind of like these more you know

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Speaker 2: rituals you know that we do at the end of

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Speaker 2: the week, where you know, there's kind of cleaning of

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Speaker 2: the desks. There's kind of like, you know.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to read what you said in this interview.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why not said it because it's interesting

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Speaker 1: and it's fun, and if it's wrong, tell me that

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Speaker 1: it's wrong. Here's what I read. I read that you

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Speaker 1: said at the company, every Friday, you clean the toilets,

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Speaker 1: tables in the entire office. Is that true?

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Speaker 2: We very much used to do that. You know, the

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Speaker 2: company has grown, you know, since.

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Speaker 1: Too big, too big for everybody to clean the toilets

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Speaker 1: every friday. I love that you clean the toilets. I've

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Speaker 1: had jobs where I cleaned the toilets, But like that,

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Speaker 1: why why did you clean the toilets every Friday at

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Speaker 1: your company?

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Speaker 2: Because the toilets need to be clean? Right fair?

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Speaker 1: I can't step to that. Okay, a few more questions.

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Speaker 1: You've lived in both tel Aviv and San Francisco, so

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Speaker 1: I'm curious on a few dimensions. Tel Aviv versus San

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Speaker 1: Francisco for food, tel Aviv for conversation, tel Aviv weather.

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Speaker 2: Well, if it's San Francisco versus Tel Aviv, then tel Aviv.

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Speaker 2: If it's the peninsula, then I would say the peninsula.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but the companies in San Francisco, right, that's right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So if it's tel Aviv, tel Aviv, tel Aviv,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing at San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: That's a great question. Yeah, you know, like I ask

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Speaker 2: myself that as well. Sometimes no, but you know, look,

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Speaker 2: I mean there's you know, there's retalent here. This is

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Speaker 2: the you know, the mecca for for AI and startup

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Speaker 2: innovation the world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so agglomeration, it's agglomeration effects. You're there

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Speaker 1: because everybody else is there. What's a what's an unconventional

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Speaker 1: or surprising thing you've done to solve a problem, any

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Speaker 1: kind of problem?

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Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you just you know, walk away, right,

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Speaker 2: Maybe you don't have the resources to solve and not

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Speaker 2: having the resourcess, maybe you don't have the theorem that

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Speaker 2: you need is not there, Maybe the mathematical framework that

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Speaker 2: you need is not there, maybe the you know, maybe

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Speaker 2: the compute power. Right, So sometimes the best way is

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Speaker 2: just to walk away from a problem and revisit it.

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Speaker 1: Then, if everything goes well, what problem will you be

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Speaker 1: trying to solve in five years?

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Speaker 2: I think everything goes well, will be solving exactly the

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Speaker 2: same problem that we're solving right now. I think it's like,

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Speaker 2: you know, because we don't see this problem going away.

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Speaker 2: But but if things go well, then you know, we

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Speaker 2: we then then we're still hacking at it, which which

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Speaker 2: I very much hope that you know we'll continue on doing.

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Speaker 1: Your own Singer is the founder and CEO of Robust Intelligence.

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Speaker 1: Today's show was produced by Gabriel Hunter Chang and Edith Russolo.

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Speaker 1: It was edited by Sarah Nix and engineered by Amanda K.

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Speaker 2: Wong.

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Speaker 1: You can email us at problem at Pushkin dot fm.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on Twitter at Jacob Goldstein. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jacob Goldstein and we'll be back next week with another

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