Steven Bartlett

TLDR, as he said, we currently have 7,000 employees.

We're going to be able to get down to 3,000, he said, after summer because of AI.

And we'll be using our existing team members that are in customer service roles to do more sort of bespoke white glove VIP stuff.

Retail cashiers, admin assistants, bookkeepers, and payroll clerks, sales, development reps, warehouse workers with...

Amazon and others reporting that robots now assist or replace labour in roughly 40% of fulfilment tasks.

And that Boston Dynamics video, which I'll put up on the screen, shows a humanoid robot working in a factory.

I used to be a fast food worker.

So did I in McDonald's.

I think it was two days.

I did two years at McDonald's.

Oh, really?

Because this disruption is happening at record speeds...

Where do all these people go?

Because, you know, even in examples, oh, they could do AI labeling.

They need to be upskilled and trained.

And I worry that the rate of disruption isn't going to meet the rate of creation of new opportunities.

And I really do worry about this.

Like, I think people wonder why I have these conversations on this podcast over and over again.

My philosophy to having conversations on this podcast is basically, I'll say to my team, I'll say, Steve, do you want to have a conversation about, you know, this particular subject, the gut microbiome?

And I'll say, we've covered it.