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

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Jon Stewart on The Daily Show satirizes the AI industry's promises of a better future while it builds technology to replace workers. It mocks executives and AI hype.

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Cited in AI threads as a comedic take on corporate AI hype and executives wanting to cut headcount.

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Satire & parody AI safety, AGI & impact Media, journalism & propaganda

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HenryBemis · 2025-04 · Reference
> we are limiting resource on key teams Yes, growth without the 'human tax'! Cost-savings all the way to 11!! (also no dependency/no key-employees risk/backups/shifts/etc.) I remember this vid from a year ago where it's pretty clear what every CEO's wet dream is: reduce headcount, improve output, more profits. It's sad in a funny way: [VIDEO]
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throwaway_62022 · 2024-05 · Reference
As John Stewart says in [VIDEO] - "How about I hold the fort on making peanut butter sandwiches, because that is something I can do. How about we let AI solve this world climate problem". Yet to see a true "killer" feature of AI, that isn't doing a job badly which humans can already do badly.
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nojvek · 2024-04 · Reference
US supporting Ukraine made sense, Russia was the clear aggresor. US supporting Israel makes very little sense. That being said, Trump signed bill to removed reporting of drone strikes by US military and he approved more strikes than Obama. So US likely has amplified systems compared to Lavender and Gospel. We'd have no idea. This season of Daily Show about AI comes to mind: [VIDEO] Everyone claiming AI is going to do great good, solve climate change yada yada is deeply in an illusion. AI will only amplify what corporations and state powers already do.
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