 These could be likely to persist. A lot of this are the baby boomers aging out of the workforce, sharply increasing available jobs per available worker. McKinsey sees artificial intelligence as a possible way to get jobs done with the workers we have. But despite all the AI excitement, it is a technology that needs to prove its usefulness. Our executive producer is Kelly Silvera. Our digital producer is Dylan Yetman. Our engineers are Brian Allison and John Brewington.