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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Will AI Eliminate Jobs or Create New Ones?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-19. Transcript available.

and i think ai scares people because the future scares people right it's like
that's one of the scariest things sometimes is the future so i think a lot of
times
people you associate um because a lot of times people mention ai there's a
little bit of fear
it seems like from people yeah um there's fear that it's going to take jobs
there's fear that
it's going to take over um our ability to think for ourselves yeah there's just
kind of some
general uncertainty there like it's just and it kind of feels like fear a lot
of times but a lot
of times fear is just a lack of knowledge right um and not a lack of knowledge
because you didn't
want to know just because you don't know yeah or that you're dumb but just
because you don't know
um what are what are positive things that we're going to see with ai right i
want to start there
yeah so i think first like we don't the ai industry we don't do the best job
explaining this and i think
sometimes we make it seem all sci-fi and and and genuinely we we're part of the
problem and making
it seem scary right uh but you know one thing for example is like i think ai is
actually going
to create a ton of jobs um and that story is not told enough but you know these
jobs that we're
producing or this this sort of um this opportunity that we're providing on our
platform outlier like
that's only going to grow as ai grows so because you have to have new data you
have to have new data
and the only place you can get new data is from people will at a certain point
would the system be
able to create it can probably matriculate data or matriculate is that with birthing
or what is that
yeah it just moves through like okay it can probably like quantifier and and
give you answers but it
can ai create new data uh no so i think well it can do a little bit of that so
it can ai can help itself
create its own data um and and help itself a little bit but ultimately most of
the progress is going to
come from you know people right we're able to help really the model get better
and smarter and more
capable at all these all these different areas ah yeah i didn't see that part
of it i didn't understand
that we are the ones who are giving it um information and since we're going to
continue to learn i would
assume that we would be able to help to continue to help it learn yeah and the
world's going to keep
changing and we're going to need to be able to keep teaching the the algorithms
keep teaching the
models about how the world's changing so in it you know uh this is actually a a
big thing that i think
most people don't understand the people who are getting the opportunity now who
are earning money
from it see it but as ai grows there's actually going to be tons of jobs
created along the way
and tons of opportunity for people to help improve ai systems or control ai
systems or overall um sort
of be a part of the the technology not just sort of disenfranchised by it okay
so like yeah so what
were what are you do you feel like are other ways like if you had to look into
the future a little bit
right so you have the fact that people are going to be able to add more data
right yep and add
nuances to data yep right and um and probably humanize data a little bit yeah
totally um and
then you're also going to have what i think you're going to have a lot of um a
lot of jobs around you
know as ai starts um doing all these little things throughout the world who's
going to keep watch of
those ai and who's going to make sure that those ai are uh aren't doing
something that we don't want
them to do so almost like managing the ais and and keeping watch over all the
ai systems that's going
to be another thing that we're going to have to do um and then and then it's
just somebody to kind of
guide the river a little bit yeah at a certain point guide the stream stay in
there uh watch make sure
that answers are correct make sure the information um is honest yeah yeah like
like i think for example
um you know we're not gonna just have ais going around and you know um you know
buying stuff and
doing crazy things and like you know we're gonna we're gonna keep it controlled
right like as a
society i think we're gonna keep it controlled as a technology and i think
there's gonna be a lot of
jobs for people to make sure that the ai doesn't go out and do crazy things
that we don't want it to do
right so we want to be so you're gonna need managers you're gonna need facilitators
yeah exactly
what are some jobs that could that could be at risk because of ai right because
you start thinking that
like yeah before i was talking to you there's this general fear of like
everything could be at risk
right um but when you think about it you're like yeah these are some jobs that
i mean they won't
disappear but there might be less of them right i just think it'll be um it'll
be we'll be doing
like a different thing so because a lot of our fans are probably just blue-collar
listeners like
like there's people that work and like you're not gonna you're still gonna need
a plumber you're
still getting an electrician you're still gonna need anything where you have to
physically do
something you're probably still gonna need yeah for sure and then even stuff
where you're like let's
say you're you're mostly just working on a laptop and you know um even for
those jobs like
it'll just change like instead of being um instead of my job being like hey i
have to do the
work i literally do the work on a laptop it'll almost be like everybody gets um
promoted to
being a manager like because i'm gonna be managing like a a little pod of 10 ai
agents that are doing
the work that i used to do but i need to make sure that all of them are doing
it right and that um
they're not making any mistakes and that you know if they're making mistakes i'm
helping them you know
get around those mistakes like like it's just gonna i the way i think about it
is that like yeah like
literally um over time everybody will just be upgraded to being a manager or
sort of promoted
to being a manager but can you have that many managers you think yeah because i
think that
what's the other thing that's gonna happen is the um the economy is just gonna
grow so much like
there's gonna be there's gonna be so much like there will be like industries
are gonna pop off in
crazy crazy crazy ways and so you know the limit is gonna be how many ais can
you have and then you're
gonna be limited for in terms of the number of ais you have by the number of
managers that you have
so um it's gonna uh it's gonna because you need air traffic controllers you
need as money as many of
as you can have yeah well that that definitely but but right but i mean in any
field you're gonna need
like just more managing any more people to oversee and make sure that these
that different things are
happening because some of the smaller tasks will just be outsourced yeah and
just so much more stuff
is going to be happening right and that's kind of right because yeah once these
things are all kind
of taken care of more things can happen at this second level yep that's a good
point yeah you don't think
about that once some of the things at the first level of of certain businesses
are handled yep more
easily by ai then you're going to be able to have more people operating at a
higher level yeah totally
it's kind of like it's kind of like always the history of technology like when
when we started
developing technology that that started um making farming a lot more efficient
all of a sudden um you
know people could do a lot of other things other than farming and then you know
all of a sudden we
have big entertainment industries and big financial industries and you know
barbecue cook-offs man i'll
tell you that second some of those guys got the weekend off they was grilling
that i knew but yeah so
it's all about like us um yeah everybody leveling up to be managers and also
everybody you know just way
more ideas are going to start happening like way more ideas are going to start
becoming a reality and so
um it'll be i don't be pretty exciting like i think it's just like a lot more
stuff is going to happen
what are things that ai will alleviate like what are things that like will it
eventually be able to
have enough information like our data where uh where it can like cure diseases
and stuff like that like
is that a realistic thing yeah that's super real um like cancer even yeah
cancer um yeah heart disease like all
these all these all these diseases yeah cancer on its heels but but sorry antonio
brown was just here i
think there's still some smoke in the air so um no but seriously i think that
ai uh one thing that
we've seen which is this is kind of wild but ai understands like molecules and
biology better than humans do
actually because um because um it's uh like like uh there there's this there's
this thing in ai where
you know it used to take a like a phd biologist like you know five years to do
something that the ai can
can just do in you know a few minutes right and that's because the like uh just
the way that molecules
and biology and all that works is something that that ai happens to be really
good at and that's going
to help us ultimately cure diseases find um you know pharmaceuticals or other
treatments for these
diseases and ultimately help humans live longer because that's very data driven
right like it's very
specific it's very mathematic exactly yeah yeah um so it's going to be a huge
tool for us to to cure
disease um for us to help educate people um for us to you know there's a lot of
a lot of really exciting
uses for ai but i think the kind of i think the thing that um will touch most
people in their lives
is it's really going to be a um like a tool that will help you um you know make
all of your sort of uh
make all your dreams kind of become reality if that makes sense so so i think
one of the things that ai
is going to be really awesome for is like you know today if i i have like a
million ideas right i have
like you know thousands and thousands of ideas and i only have so much time so
i can only really do
you know a few of them at a time and most of the ideas just go to die right
yeah they do huh yeah
that's a bummer it's a huge bummer yeah and i think a lot of people you know
for whatever reason
they may have some of the best ideas ever but they just you know they're too
busy or they have like
other going on in their lives they can't make those ideas happen and it's great
with sometimes when
people are able to make the leaps and make them happen and like devote
themselves to their dreams
but um but that doesn't happen enough today and one of the things that ai is
going to help us do
i i legitimately think so is it's going to help us um turn these ideas into
reality much more easily
so you know you can um like you know you're making a movie let's say you have
another movie idea you can
say you can ultimately i think you'll be able to tell an ai hey i have this
idea for a movie what
could that look like you know maybe draft up a script um also who are the
people who can help
you know fund this idea like who who those people be can help reach out to them
and then like you
know who should we cast in it basically help make the whole thing a uh you know
instead of this like
daunting thing that these big projects they're usually so daunting you really
don't know where to get
started you kind of need a person to help you get through them instead of that
ai will help you get
through it and like help do a lot of the the sort of less glamorous work to
make them a reality wow
and i think i think over time it'll also be able to start doing a lot of the
leg work for you so
it'll be able to reach out to people for you it'll be able to you know uh
figure out the logistics
it'll be able to to book things for you like it'll be able to basically help do
all the leg work to
make it make you know whatever it is into a reality um so very much an
assistant in a lot of ways yeah
yeah yeah an assistant co-pilot um you know the the hot word in the ai world is
agents but you know
it's just it it'll be something that'll help you you know you humans are going
to be in control humans
are ultimately going to be telling the ais what they wanted to do and then you
know hey what do we want
what do we want these ais to do it's ultimately going to be to like help us
execute on and accomplish
all these ideas that we have so a genius could be three or four x'd if somebody's
like a genius in
something in some realm or space of thought you could three or four x them
because totally like
multiply their their output from their own brain because they could have
something really helping
them yeah um get done a lot of the like the early work on things and maybe some
of the most severe work
yeah totally like what i think one thing that i always feel like kind of sucks
is that um if you
have a director you really like they're only going to make a movie once every
couple of years so even
if you have a director that you'd like think is amazing you know they just it's
hard for them to
make that many movies like because it just takes so much time and effort and
you know um there's so
many bottlenecks and stuff so in a future with you know more advanced ai
systems they could they could
just turn them out and uh they could they can make so many of their ideas into
a reality and i think
that's true not only in creative areas but it's kind of true across the board
like you know you can start
new businesses more easily you can um you know you can make various creative
projects you have happen
more easily you can make like you can you can finally plan that event that you
and your friends
have been talking about for like you know years and years so it can just like
really help you you
know we think about as like giving humans more agency giving humans more sort
of sovereignty and
just and just enabling humans to get way more done hmm so so say for example
say you might need to hire
people at a company then that would help direct your ai like somebody who's
good at
managing ai yeah uh and giving it the best prompts or the best way to ask it
questions yeah uh to get
the perfect feedback for your company yeah so those would be new jobs you those
would be actual new
people you would need yeah so so tons of new jobs right well first i think just
like helping to you know
kind of what we're talking about before these jobs around helping to improve
the data and and um
contribute to the ai systems that's just going to keep growing for a long long
time and then as ai
gets better and it gets used in more areas then you're there are going to be a
lot of jobs uh that pop
up just exactly as you're saying which is how do you what's the best way to use
this as a tool what's the best way to leverage it to you know um actually make
some of these uh these applications
uh you know whatever you want to build a reality yeah and then and then there's
going to be folks who'd need
to then once those are built like how do you keep improving it how do you keep
making it better how do
you keep um how do you keep it fresh how do you keep it um keep it going and
then how do you also make sure
it doesn't do anything bad right like how do you make sure that the ai doesn't
accidentally spam a million
people or whatever it might be um and you make sure that it sort of is uh like
operating in a good way
Thank you.

Will AI Eliminate Jobs or Create New Ones?

and i think ai scares people because the future scares people right it's like
that's one of the scariest things sometimes is the future so i think a lot of
times
people you associate um because a lot of times people mention ai there's a
little bit of fear
it seems like from people yeah um there's fear that it's going to take jobs
there's fear that
it's going to take over um our ability to think for ourselves yeah there's just
kind of some
general uncertainty there like it's just and it kind of feels like fear a lot
of times but a lot
of times fear is just a lack of knowledge right um and not a lack of knowledge
because you didn't
want to know just because you don't know yeah or that you're dumb but just
because you don't know
um what are what are positive things that we're going to see with ai right i
want to start there
yeah so i think first like we don't the ai industry we don't do the best job
explaining this and i think
sometimes we make it seem all sci-fi and and and genuinely we we're part of the
problem and making
it seem scary right uh but you know one thing for example is like i think ai is
actually going
to create a ton of jobs um and that story is not told enough but you know these
jobs that we're
producing or this this sort of um this opportunity that we're providing on our
platform outlier like
that's only going to grow as ai grows so because you have to have new data you
have to have new data
and the only place you can get new data is from people will at a certain point
would the system be
able to create it can probably matriculate data or matriculate is that with birthing
or what is that
yeah it just moves through like okay it can probably like quantifier and and
give you answers but it
can ai create new data uh no so i think well it can do a little bit of that so
it can ai can help itself
create its own data um and and help itself a little bit but ultimately most of
the progress is going to
come from you know people right we're able to help really the model get better
and smarter and more
capable at all these all these different areas ah yeah i didn't see that part
of it i didn't understand
that we are the ones who are giving it um information and since we're going to
continue to learn i would
assume that we would be able to help to continue to help it learn yeah and the
world's going to keep
changing and we're going to need to be able to keep teaching the the algorithms
keep teaching the
models about how the world's changing so in it you know uh this is actually a a
big thing that i think
most people don't understand the people who are getting the opportunity now who
are earning money
from it see it but as ai grows there's actually going to be tons of jobs
created along the way
and tons of opportunity for people to help improve ai systems or control ai
systems or overall um sort
of be a part of the the technology not just sort of disenfranchised by it okay
so like yeah so what
were what are you do you feel like are other ways like if you had to look into
the future a little bit
right so you have the fact that people are going to be able to add more data
right yep and add
nuances to data yep right and um and probably humanize data a little bit yeah
totally um and
then you're also going to have what i think you're going to have a lot of um a
lot of jobs around you
know as ai starts um doing all these little things throughout the world who's
going to keep watch of
those ai and who's going to make sure that those ai are uh aren't doing
something that we don't want
them to do so almost like managing the ais and and keeping watch over all the
ai systems that's going
to be another thing that we're going to have to do um and then and then it's
just somebody to kind of
guide the river a little bit yeah at a certain point guide the stream stay in
there uh watch make sure
that answers are correct make sure the information um is honest yeah yeah like
like i think for example
um you know we're not gonna just have ais going around and you know um you know
buying stuff and
doing crazy things and like you know we're gonna we're gonna keep it controlled
right like as a
society i think we're gonna keep it controlled as a technology and i think
there's gonna be a lot of
jobs for people to make sure that the ai doesn't go out and do crazy things
that we don't want it to do
right so we want to be so you're gonna need managers you're gonna need facilitators
yeah exactly
what are some jobs that could that could be at risk because of ai right because
you start thinking that
like yeah before i was talking to you there's this general fear of like
everything could be at risk
right um but when you think about it you're like yeah these are some jobs that
i mean they won't
disappear but there might be less of them right i just think it'll be um it'll
be we'll be doing
like a different thing so because a lot of our fans are probably just blue-collar
listeners like
like there's people that work and like you're not gonna you're still gonna need
a plumber you're
still getting an electrician you're still gonna need anything where you have to
physically do
something you're probably still gonna need yeah for sure and then even stuff
where you're like let's
say you're you're mostly just working on a laptop and you know um even for
those jobs like
it'll just change like instead of being um instead of my job being like hey i
have to do the
work i literally do the work on a laptop it'll almost be like everybody gets um
promoted to
being a manager like because i'm gonna be managing like a a little pod of 10 ai
agents that are doing
the work that i used to do but i need to make sure that all of them are doing
it right and that um
they're not making any mistakes and that you know if they're making mistakes i'm
helping them you know
get around those mistakes like like it's just gonna i the way i think about it
is that like yeah like
literally um over time everybody will just be upgraded to being a manager or
sort of promoted
to being a manager but can you have that many managers you think yeah because i
think that
what's the other thing that's gonna happen is the um the economy is just gonna
grow so much like
there's gonna be there's gonna be so much like there will be like industries
are gonna pop off in
crazy crazy crazy ways and so you know the limit is gonna be how many ais can
you have and then you're
gonna be limited for in terms of the number of ais you have by the number of
managers that you have
so um it's gonna uh it's gonna because you need air traffic controllers you
need as money as many of
as you can have yeah well that that definitely but but right but i mean in any
field you're gonna need
like just more managing any more people to oversee and make sure that these
that different things are
happening because some of the smaller tasks will just be outsourced yeah and
just so much more stuff
is going to be happening right and that's kind of right because yeah once these
things are all kind
of taken care of more things can happen at this second level yep that's a good
point yeah you don't think
about that once some of the things at the first level of of certain businesses
are handled yep more
easily by ai then you're going to be able to have more people operating at a
higher level yeah totally
it's kind of like it's kind of like always the history of technology like when
when we started
developing technology that that started um making farming a lot more efficient
all of a sudden um you
know people could do a lot of other things other than farming and then you know
all of a sudden we
have big entertainment industries and big financial industries and you know
barbecue cook-offs man i'll
tell you that second some of those guys got the weekend off they was grilling
that i knew but yeah so
it's all about like us um yeah everybody leveling up to be managers and also
everybody you know just way
more ideas are going to start happening like way more ideas are going to start
becoming a reality and so
um it'll be i don't be pretty exciting like i think it's just like a lot more
stuff is going to happen
what are things that ai will alleviate like what are things that like will it
eventually be able to
have enough information like our data where uh where it can like cure diseases
and stuff like that like
is that a realistic thing yeah that's super real um like cancer even yeah
cancer um yeah heart disease like all
these all these all these diseases yeah cancer on its heels but but sorry antonio
brown was just here i
think there's still some smoke in the air so um no but seriously i think that
ai uh one thing that
we've seen which is this is kind of wild but ai understands like molecules and
biology better than humans do
actually because um because um it's uh like like uh there there's this there's
this thing in ai where
you know it used to take a like a phd biologist like you know five years to do
something that the ai can
can just do in you know a few minutes right and that's because the like uh just
the way that molecules
and biology and all that works is something that that ai happens to be really
good at and that's going
to help us ultimately cure diseases find um you know pharmaceuticals or other
treatments for these
diseases and ultimately help humans live longer because that's very data driven
right like it's very
specific it's very mathematic exactly yeah yeah um so it's going to be a huge
tool for us to to cure
disease um for us to help educate people um for us to you know there's a lot of
a lot of really exciting
uses for ai but i think the kind of i think the thing that um will touch most
people in their lives
is it's really going to be a um like a tool that will help you um you know make
all of your sort of uh
make all your dreams kind of become reality if that makes sense so so i think
one of the things that ai
is going to be really awesome for is like you know today if i i have like a
million ideas right i have
like you know thousands and thousands of ideas and i only have so much time so
i can only really do
you know a few of them at a time and most of the ideas just go to die right
yeah they do huh yeah
that's a bummer it's a huge bummer yeah and i think a lot of people you know
for whatever reason
they may have some of the best ideas ever but they just you know they're too
busy or they have like
other going on in their lives they can't make those ideas happen and it's great
with sometimes when
people are able to make the leaps and make them happen and like devote
themselves to their dreams
but um but that doesn't happen enough today and one of the things that ai is
going to help us do
i i legitimately think so is it's going to help us um turn these ideas into
reality much more easily
so you know you can um like you know you're making a movie let's say you have
another movie idea you can
say you can ultimately i think you'll be able to tell an ai hey i have this
idea for a movie what
could that look like you know maybe draft up a script um also who are the
people who can help
you know fund this idea like who who those people be can help reach out to them
and then like you
know who should we cast in it basically help make the whole thing a uh you know
instead of this like
daunting thing that these big projects they're usually so daunting you really
don't know where to get
started you kind of need a person to help you get through them instead of that
ai will help you get
through it and like help do a lot of the the sort of less glamorous work to
make them a reality wow
and i think i think over time it'll also be able to start doing a lot of the
leg work for you so
it'll be able to reach out to people for you it'll be able to you know uh
figure out the logistics
it'll be able to to book things for you like it'll be able to basically help do
all the leg work to
make it make you know whatever it is into a reality um so very much an
assistant in a lot of ways yeah
yeah yeah an assistant c