Dillon: Eliminating gig work via AI destroys the pipeline for new artists
Tim Dillon · Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon · Apr 19, 2025 · at 1:07:38
Comedian Tim Dillon discusses how flexible gig labor allowed him to build his stand-up career and warns about the cultural costs of AI eliminating entry-level jobs.
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“Some of those, I don't think the entire economy should be the gig economy, but I do think some of those jobs are going to be eliminated by AI are the jobs that allow people to get good at other things while they're doing them. So people that are in entertainment and music and stuff like that, we want them to be able to support themselves while they enrich us culturally in other ways.”
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