Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart tackles the AI revolution and how its creators are promising a better future while building technology to make human workers obsolete. #DailyShow #JonStewart #AI

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[EzzyDT]

I am 60 years old. When computers started, I was told the work week would be reduced to 4 days a week. Today, people I know must work more hours, not less.

[deanfiora]

I was laid off from an office job in 2006 and had three years of self-actualizating me time before I could find full-time work again. You'd be surprised at how little time I spent creating art and how much time I spent worried that I'd become homeless.

[Blaze]

You know when tech bros call everyone a luddite?

Never forget that the Luddites didn't just randomly hate machines. They smashed machines that were used by rich robber barons to produce garbage products in dangerous conditions without training and appropriate compensation. They weren't mad at machines, they were mad at their standards of living being deliberately and maliciously torpedoed for the sake of profits and power.

[RobertMarzullo]

The part that truly bothers me about this technology is how they pitch it as something that will make humanity better when in reality it will destroy a massive amount of our humanity by removing more humans from the process. Think of the systematic chain of events from less and less people having creative outlets that inspire them to become better artists. Reminds me of a saying, "Earth without art is just Eh."

[theREALsum]

If they said AI can now replace all CEO's of companies so that they can run better. It would be a different tune they would be singing.

[danganronper]

The problem with AI is not that it can do the work of employees for them
It's the fact the corporation thinks it can do the employees's work for them

[kathleenroberts]

I don't need AI for creativity, I want it to clean my house, wash dishes, windows, put on a new roof & a screened-in porch 😊

[MatthewMS.]

The World is a much better place when Jon Stewart is hosting the Daily Show. Jon IS the daily show.

[FatalKitsune]

"Raise prices astronomically and also fire everyone" is an extremely sound business model and there's no way this can go wrong.

[warprail]

I'm reminded of the Twilight Zone episode where the manager of a factory begins introducing automation to increase production and lower costs. It ends with the entire factory automated, the entire workforce laid off, and the people who once ran the factory are too impoverished to afford anything the factory produces.

[ronswanson]

I got my masters in data science and to be honest this is not the type of stuff I signed up to hep produce. When I learned that AI can be used to detect biomarkers is medical data, make video games better, and improve the quality of things like computer vision, I was happy to sign up. Now there are people working on AI therapists. I hate where the world is going.

[karolinawww]

I lost my job last week because of AI. I'm a translator and my bosses decided that it's better to have AI doing an ok job than an actual human even correcting it. It was never my dream job but still, a bit surreal

[jaredv]

Companies keep forgetting, if you keep replacing/reducing your workforce, there won't be enough people who can afford to buy your products. You can't keep upping your profit margins forever...

[nathandavis]

It will give us more free time to think about things like "man I'm hungry" "remember when we used to live inside" "I wish I could go to the doctor, but I don't have insurance anymore". So much free time.

[SR-fxsm]

Sam Altman got that crazy Elizabeth Holmes vibe

[jwbflyer]

It was never about AI. This is just a new chapter of the Bourgeoisie vs the Proletariat.

[jlevogiani]

I think that a much bigger problem is not so much that AI will take away jobs (and it will) but the fact that massive corporations will continue to charge for their products or services as if they were _still_ employing the hundreds of people replaced by that AI.

[elvieelf]

I remember during covid when we all had the extra time off work to better ourselves and we all emerged as a more united, well educated, emotionally developed, higher thinking societ... oh wait.

[JoeDiVitaMusic]

As a professional drummer, that last bit still hit home pretty hard even though machines have been replacing my skills for the past 30-40 years. Look out songwriters...😕

[EricGonzalo]

Jon channeled that inner George Carlin in there, that prompt engineer as "Vice President of Question Input" and janitors as the "Doctor of Mopping." Such great lines and delivery.