Okay, Zach, so much hype out there about AI, and we're going to dive in, but right out of the gate.

Will AI make most white collar workers unnecessary, or is it going to make us more valuable?

Can you define unnecessary?

Meaning you don't need a job. They don't need you. Let's put it that way.

One, I struggle with this definition of white collar versus blue color, knowledge work versus

non-knowledge work. But if the question bluntly is, will most of the work we do today be automated at some point by machines or can it be? The answer is, yes, it could be probably at the current rate. Then there's a bigger question, which is, will it be? We can go into this, but this is the theory of technological thresholds, what can a machine do versus societal thresholds? What do we want a machine to do?

Yeah, that's a key distinction. So let's go there. Can it be versus will it be? But then I still

want to answer something that you asked sort of implicitly, which is you use the word unnecessary.

Yes, on purpose. Yeah, and I think that's part of the charge right now. And I want to start by saying,

I don't want to,

I'm trying to introduce ideas that let people arrive

at their own conclusions.

I have some strong opinions.

Most of them I actually keep fairly close

because I want my job to be helping people

make sense of this on their own,

less giving people the answer.

It's good.

And some of this means better understanding what it is we're facing right now, which is

unprecedented in some ways, and actually we've seen before in many others.

Necessary in this case is a word that we should revisit because it asks, will we be found,

will human labor be important to the future?

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