Andrew Yang

I'm not gnashing my teeth right now like, oh, you mean like, you know, I'm not president.

I mean, my goal was to be the Paul Revere of AI and automation and galvanize energy around meaningful solutions.

And I will tell you guys, my phone's ringing off the hook now because a lot of folks are calling me saying, what the heck do we do?

Yeah, there's a chapter in my book saying white-collar jobs will be automated, too.

But I agree with you on the campaign trail.

I wasn't talking about that.

And I actually find myself thinking, would I have talked about that even if I'd seen it coming?

Because it's not as sympathetic, honestly, in a political setting to talk about whippersnappers getting sent home and not being able to become office workers.

I sat with an AI executive for dinner the other night, and he said, I didn't know we were going to do language first.

I didn't know that that's what was going to happen.

And then if you knew you were going to do language first, then it follows that paralegals and the rest of it are in the crosshairs.

Yeah, so I'm with you, Kevin, that if you'd asked me then what the sequencing was going to be, I would have said unclear.

But I wasn't trying to raise the alarm about this particular population issue.

Yeah, so the biggest thing to me is you have to try and go cross-cultural and cross-partisan slash non-partisan because our country has been sliced and diced and so thoroughly gerrymandered.

Some of the stats I like to cite for people because they're depressing but fun is that Congress has a 16% approval rating right now and incumbent members have a 94% re-election rate.

So it's like a restaurant where people hate 84% of the food, but the menu never changes.

And so that's where people are getting stuck.

There are folks who think that the answer is going to come from within the existing parties.

I'm very dubious of that approach for a host of reasons.

I think that you have to be able to bring together, to your point, Kevin, the junior coder who just lost his job with...