A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.

This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:

• A recent study suggesting AI isn't saving workers a ton of time on the job
• Eight Houston-area barbecue restaurants making Texas Monthly’s Top 50 list (after Yelp snubbed the city)

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Lisa Falkenberg, senior columnist with the Houston Chronicle
• Vivian Ho, health economist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine
• Marco Roberts, chairman of the Texas Conservative Liberty Forum