Brian Stewart

So honestly, it's hard to peg the labor market at this point.

I do think the AI situation is going to cause a structural labor issue that we're going to have to work out.

I think a lot of jobs that were considered kind of

premier jobs are now going to be on the chopping block.

I'm thinking of things like computer programming and things that for 20 years they said, if you want to be successful, just learn to code.

That might not be as good advice anymore now that AI can do a lot of the lower end stuff.

as an economy, we're going to have to figure it out over the coming years, really.

Because there might be a situation where if AI is taking over all these jobs, there might just be structurally higher unemployment.

And we're going to have to figure out what that means as a society.

What it means in the near term, we'll kind of see as the jobs number comes in.

But as it stands, it's sort of not great, but not horrible is where we're

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