Comedian Jon Stewart is sounding the alarm on AI, saying rapid adoption will result in lost jobs on a massive scale. Jon Stewart devoted a large segment of Monday’s episode of Comedy Central’s“We have been through technological advances before and they all have promised a utopian life without drudgery,” Stewart said. “And the reality is they come for our jobs.
” Stewart then played clips of AI company executives giving assurances that the technology won’t replace humans, followed by clips of other executives talking about AI as a “labor saving tool” and AI removing the “tax of more people.” AI is “replacing us in the workforce, not in the future, but now,” Stewart said, later adding, “this is some shit you have going on over here.”“But that’s the game. Whether it’s globalization or industrialization, or now artificial intelligence, the way of life that you are accustomed to is no match for the promise of more profits and new markets,” he sai