Alessandra Ram

So is AI.

Actually, the AI industry is very volatile.

So people are losing their jobs or they're trying to get these jobs.

And it's very competitive because they're supposed to be.

And it's supposed to be sort of the unlock to economic success.

So that's causing a lot of stress on people, on marriages, on families when one person, say, for example, loses their job or is desperately trying to get a job in AI because they think that that's going to help them financially or make them rich, to be honest.

That's also another component here.

Yeah, it's FOMO.

Well, it's really interesting because, you know, when I spoke with the professor at Rutgers who really took me through sort of these iterations of the tech boom, which kind of, you know, a lot of this stuff happened in California, right?

The gold rush, the dot com, and now here we are with the AI boom.

This feels bigger is what she said.

And it's sort of when I spoke with multiple people, that's kind of where everyone landed is that this actually just feels even more seismic.

And maybe...

It could also be like the messaging that everybody is receiving, probably from these AI companies that have these sort of enormous evaluations that we all have to adopt this technology or we're all going to just, you know, completely combust.

So what was interesting here is that then, so for example, you're in a family unit.

There's one person, this happened in the gold rush,

They go off west, and that's usually the man, right, to sort of find his fortune, leaving the family behind.

And that's kind of what we're seeing here with this new iteration of a boom, right, is that someone else is leaving the household, whether maybe they're still working remotely at home, so they're in the household, but they're

I have to ask, has anything changed in your own relationship since you embarked upon this reporting?

You know, I think it's to be just present in the moment.