Brendan Steinhauser

The trend lines that we're seeing are picking up very fast.

And so a lot of us have been talking about this for a few years now, but what we're seeing even in the last 30 days, in the last nine days, as you're citing,

is everything is changing much more rapidly.

So you're seeing software engineers and people that run software companies talking about how they are essentially being replaced right now.

And they're putting out warning shots saying, this is going to happen to all white collar work.

Mustafa Suleiman, the head of AI for Microsoft, said that he thinks that white-collar jobs could be automated within 12 to 18 months.

Now, we may or may not buy that timeline, but they are sounding the alarm.

These are the people building the technology.

We had OpenAI just in the last week, people fleeing that company, leaving that company, saying they're not taking safety seriously.

They're not taking security seriously.

And so some folks who've left OpenAI and Anthropic, one of the other companies, have said,

the world is in peril.

They're literally going to go do something else with their lives because they're so concerned that we're on the wrong path here.

We've had questions, obviously, about the finance side of this, about whether there's an AI bubble or this circular financing that's creating all these potential problems in the economy.

So it's that combined with regular Americans.

I mean, I go and talk to people on the road all the time

And they are concerned about their jobs.

They're seeing these headlines.

They're seeing more and more people talk about this.

And then their friends who work in tech, their friends that work as software engineers or tech sales are seeing this happening to them right now.