In a survey last month, more than half of U.S. workers expressed concern that AI could take their job or the job of a family member. Another survey in December found that almost 60 percent of young people believe AI poses a threat to their job prospects. Our national debt is not a theoretical boogeyman. 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.