Jon Stewart has revealed that Apple requested him to not discuss to the Federal Commerce Fee Chair Lina Khan on his former Apple TV+ present and podcast, The Drawback with Jon Stewart.
Khan was a visitor on Monday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Day by day Present, and Stewart made the admission through the interview. When the dialogue moved on to synthetic intelligence, Stewart informed Khan that he had wished to speak to her on The Drawback.
“I’ve acquired to inform you, I wished to have you ever on a podcast and Apple requested us to not do it, to have you ever. They actually stated, ‘please don’t discuss to her’,” Stewart stated. “I don’t suppose they cared for you,” he then joked.
Khan, who turned chair of the FTC in 2021, has made a reputation for herself for being an outspoken critic of the enterprise practices of the likes of Amazon, Meta and the opposite corporations generally described as Large Tech and has been praised by each Democrats and Republicans for her antitrust efforts.
Stewart added that Apple have been additionally involved about the way in which The Drawback would sort out the difficulty of AI. “They wouldn’t allow us to do this dumb factor we did within the first act on AI,” Stewart stated, referring to a section from earlier within the present that mocked a number of the guarantees of AI.
“What’s that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out within the public sphere?” Stewart requested Khan, however appeared to be talking extra broadly.
Final October, Apple TV+ abruptly canceled the eight-episode third season of The Drawback. The Hollywood Reporter reported that there had been stress between Apple and Stewart forward of season three over matters that might be featured within the present. Sources informed THR that Apple approached Stewart and knowledgeable the host that either side wanted to be “aligned” concerning matters on the present. Stewart, sources say, balked on the concept of being “hamstrung” by Apple, which threatened to cancel the sequence. Stewart, sources say, wished to have full inventive management of the sequence and, after Apple threatened to cancel the sequence, informed the tech firm that he was strolling away from the present somewhat than have his palms tied.