AI & The Future of Work with Daron Acemoglu and David Autor
4/22/20261 hr 14 min
As artificial intelligence continues to integrate into the workforce, Jon is joined by MIT economists David Autor and Daron Acemoglu, recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, to understand what the future might hold for American workers. Together, they explore lessons from past waves of technological change, examine what pro-worker AI could look like, and discuss what policies could help workers navigate an increasingly uncertain economic future -- and whether the incentives exist to achieve them. This episode is brought to you by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through my link https://groundnews.com/stewart AVOCADO GREEN MATTRESS - Go to https://AvocadoGreenMattress.com/TWS and check out their mattress and bedding sale! BOLL AND BRANCH - Go to https://BollAndBranch.com/tws with code TWS to unlock 15% off. BOMBAS - Head over to https://Bombas.com/WEEKLY and use code WEEKLY for 20% off your first purchase. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more:
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First 90 secondsJon Stewart· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome. My name is Jon Stewart. It's another Weekly Show podcast on this, Earth Day eve. Is that-- I- Uh, do you celebrate? I love Earth. I can't wait. The pitter-patter of little feet at six in the morning running downstairs to open up their Earth Day presents. Uh, and as, uh, this glorious Earth is, is being celebrated while simultaneously being destroyed, uh, on, on the back end of it, I thought it would be appropriate not to worry about Iran, not to worry about climate change, but to worry about a third existential threat, which is AI, artificial intelligence. It is happening, people, and it's about time that we had a, a sober conversation about its, uh, its deleterious effects, but also its opportunities. And so we're gonna go straight to the source. We're gonna go to two brilliant, brilliant, uh, MIT economists who are gonna talk to us a little bit about, uh, the, the possibilities of AI, the collateral damage of AI, and the various ways we might be able to mitigate that. So we're just gonna get right into it with those cats right now. Uh, here they are. [percussion sound] Folks, we're gonna break it down today, uh, in terms of the AI revolution and what will be the repercussions for the American people, the American worker,