We just got off a Zoom with my five high school classmates and spouses/significant, and it was pretty depressing, if truth be known. The reason is clear. We were talking about artificial intelligence. I know, this is a repeat topic.

But this time, we talked not only about how it might affect the world, but about how it is seemingly uncontrollable. This time we talked about how happy we were to be 80, and how difficult it would be to be a young person today. What is there to look forward to? What would you think about as a career? The one thing that is clear – the amount of teenage and twenty-something depression seems to be climbing and climbing.

When we got off the Zoom, we turned on the Chris Hayes show on MSNBC and saw he was talking to an “expert” on Artificial Intelligence, who said that she thought that AI may totally infiltrate and change our lives very quickly – perhaps within the next 18 months or so.

Keep tuned.