You know,

You know,

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The job apocalypse is our topic today.

What's the job apocalypse? It means the end of the world, right? So the end of the job world so the end of the job world sounds kind of an ominous

this is her first new year uh um how should i say new year topic and uh it was triggered by a trip

to san francisco first a statistic i got this from McKinsey Global Institute.

They're like a consulting firm for big, huge companies.

And they are predicting up to 800 million jobs,

800 million jobs lost by 2030 one billion jobs lost by 2030 one billion jobs lost by

2036 so 10 years from now a billion jobs gone because of AI and robotics primarily because of AI and robotics, primarily because of AI and robotics.

So the reason I'm talking about this, you know, is because I'm now in Japan, by the way,

Happy New Year, a late happy new year from

Osaka Japan so on our way to on our way to Osaka we stopped in San Francisco and I was

incredibly shocked because as we went around San Francisco I kept saying these weird cars that had cameras on top of them and all over them.

And I was driving around. We rented a car. So I'm driving around. I see this kind of weird car with cameras on the top of, you know, on top of the roof and on the front and the back and all the corners of the car.

And I didn't really notice.

I didn't really look at it very carefully.

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