Comic Jon Stewart is opening up about why “The Downside with Jon Stewart” was abruptly canceled by Apple TV+ after two seasons — and he isn’t holding again.
Stewart, who’s again at Comedy Central’s “The Each day Present” after stepping down in 2015, advised audiences on Monday that Apple wouldn’t let him focus on AI expertise and its potential risks.
“What’s that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to have these conversations out within the public sphere,” he requested his visitor, Federal Commerce Fee chair Lina Khan.
She replied: “I feel it simply exhibits the hazard of what occurs while you focus a lot energy and a lot decision-making in a small variety of corporations.”
Earlier within the present, Stewart went on a rant about AI.
“So whereas we await this factor to remedy ailments and resolve local weather change, it is changing us within the workforce – not sooner or later, however now,” Stewart mentioned. “So whereas we await this factor to remedy ailments and resolve local weather change, it is changing us within the workforce – not sooner or later, however now.”
The comic additionally revealed that, when he had slated Khan to seem beforehand on his Apple program, he was explicitly advised “no.”
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“Apple requested us to not do it,” Stewart mentioned. “They actually mentioned, ‘Please do not speak to her.'”
Stewart’s Apple TV+ present ran from 2021 to 2023 with an accompanying podcast the place he reportedly had inventive management over each applications — besides that wasn’t the case, Stewart mentioned.
The New York Occasions first reported that Stewart’s Apple present was canceled in October 2023, citing disagreements in “present subjects associated to China and synthetic intelligence” that “have been inflicting concern amongst Apple executives.”
A number of states and the Federal authorities have sued massive tech corporations like Amazon and Google over alleged monopoly energy over their respective industries, specifically the net retail market and the search engine market.
Apple was sued in an antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. Division of Justice for monopolization of the smartphone market, which can level in the direction of why Apple was allegedly involved with Khan showing on Stewart’s former present.
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Apple has not but commented on Stewart’s accusations.
Stewart hosted “The Each day Present” for 16 years earlier than stepping down in 2015.
