Another survey in December found that almost 60% of young people believe AI poses a threat to their job prospects. Our national debt is not a theoretical boogeyman. In other words, our national debt and the interest costs that accompany it are stifling job creation and wage growth, and the situation will only get increasingly worse as our federal debt load continues to balloon. Our massive national debt and the significant costs it imposes on ordinary Americans is a problem of Washington’s own making. Young people are not wrong to worry about the economic disruptions AI could bring about, but our out-of-control national debt is the bigger, more pressing elephant in the room.