How Does the Public View AI? [Video]

A new segment about AI on The Daily Show is getting a ton of buzz for lampooning AI leaders.

It’s about the “false promises of AI” and features Jon Stewart cracking jokes about AI optimists…

Optimists like AI leaders who say the technology will make the world better. But skate over the topic of massive job loss due to AI.

What does this segment tell us about the current mood towards AI right now? 

I got the answer from Marketing AI Institute founder / CEO Paul Roetzer on Episode 91 of The Artificial Intelligence Show.

We can’t ignore AI’s impact on jobs

Roetzer gets why the segment lampoons e/acc thinking that says all we need to do is accelerate at all costs. He thinks tons of good will come from AI. But we can’t be ignorant to the disruption it will cause and how it will impact people.

“I do think we’re going to have job loss. I don’t …