Lisa Kudrow worries about social unrest amid AI boom

“I have a lot of mixed feelings. We talked to people who are working in [AI], and I have nephews in that world, and they say that for the broader public use, it is going to be a really great assistant,” she says in a profile published today in The Hollywood Reporter. “But I worry about how many jobs it will take, then what will people do? I don’t know whether I should say this out loud or not, but you can’t get to social unrest faster than hungry people who don’t get to work or take care of their families. That’s a scary thing.”

Kudrow is also scared of AI warping our already tenuous grasp of the trust, as she told The New Yorker in another The Comeback centered profile earlier this week. “I’m a little creeped out,” she said after seeing a video of Phoebe Buffay from Friends performing “Smelly Cat” with Kurt Cobain. “I hope nobody thinks there was some point in time when we were all sitting around with Kurt Cobain. He died before we even started! That’s the part that feels so dangerous to me, that we can’t trust anything that we see.” Hopefully, we can at least trust The Comeback to handle these issues thoughtfully and hilariously when it returns on March 22.