Bill Maher Issues Brutal Joe Biden Takedown While Ripping New College Grads & AI
What To Know
- Bill Maher criticized new college graduates and questioned the value of higher education in the age of artificial intelligence.
- He highlighted concerns about AI replacing human jobs and mocked students’ reliance on technology for answers.
- Maher delivered a pointed joke about Jill Biden thinking for Joe Biden.
Bill Maher just issued a brutal takedown of former President Joe Biden while slamming new college graduates and AI on Real Time With Bill Maher.
On the Friday, June 5 episode of his late-night show, Maher, 70, called out artificial intelligence during the “New Rule” segment. “It’s commencement season, the time of year when college kids make the transition from campus life to their parents’ basement,” he joked.
Maher then pointed out, “As for the degree you just got, that’s a little more complicated,” before showing clips of grads booing mentions of AI in recent commencement speeches.
He added, “I got to say, the kids are right. They’re right to fear that in the age of AI, that degree they’re holding is about as useful as your unused miles on Spirit Airlines. Really, isn’t that the big question we should now be asking about education? Now that you can get the answer to everything by asking your phone, why are we going to college at all?”
As Maher drew attention to AI’s growing capabilities and potential to replace human jobs, he also shared that college professors have complained about students’ lack of basic skills in the classroom. “Why bother learning with context when ChatGPT can not only just tell me the answer but also compliment me for asking such an astute question,” the stand-up comedian quipped.
Maher continued,”We emptied the kids’ heads by letting them out of high school without knowing anything. And then, what a perfect time for robots to come along and say, ‘No problem, I got you. I’m your brain now.’ That is one big, grand experiment we’re running here. Can humans survive if we completely outsource to something that does all our thinking?”
That’s when he quipped, “Like Jill Biden used to do for Joe.”
After extended applause and cheers from the audience, Maher then joked, “fake laugh machine”—a tongue-in-cheek reference to President Donald Trump‘s latest social media jab against him, echoing what he said earlier in the Real Time episode.
What do you think of Maher’s remarks on college graduates and AI?
Real Time With Bill Maher, Fridays at 10/9c, HBO
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Arghhh loathe Bill
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I think AI writes his jokes
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That's a pretty lame joke, Bill.
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Looking much older than his 70 years.President Biden certainly,looks as young as Maher.How would he know Mrs.Biden was thinking for the President he seemed perfectly capable to me
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His comments are no longer relevant.
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Ole Bill loves to dish it out don’t he ? Like he’ll never age or something. I’ve no respect or liking for Joe Biden that’s for sure. But Joe was used then tossed in the garbage when he was no longer useful. His back probably looks like Swiss cheese from all the stabs he took. Jill Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the vast majority of the Dem party stabbed the old man in the back once they had wrung out any usefulness . Now Jill is embarrassing him in public to peddle her book. I guess the Burisma money must be about gone. As I said No respect or love for Joe from me. But I do have at least some compassion that he has cancer ( I do to) and that he’s aged to the point his mental health is pretty much shot. I’m 69 and both my long term and short term memory are slipping. It doesn’t matter Who youh are or What you’re political affiliation is if you live long enough YOU might well have these same issues ! I sincerely hope and pray that Joe beats the cancer And that it’s not causing him allot of pain. And I have some fairly tight limits about mocking his mental health with the exception of either Him or his supporters denying negative things he’s said and done. Joe was merely a puppet, a Group of people with the AutoPen ran his Presidency. But I think Kamala the laughing hyena would’ve been as bad maybe worse. She stabbed him to ! To this day Trump is still cleaning up the mess that was the Biden admin.!
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Okay, it's nice to know you're at least concerned about Biden's health despite not caring about him otherwise. Same that I feel concerned that someone might successfully asassinate Trump (there are some real crazy people out there) like that guy did to Charlie Kirk despite not really liking his bombastic personality or his disrespect for certain people (Kaitlin Collins comes to mind). I also wonder about his sleeping habits (he really stays up too late writing or maybe telling someone what to write on Truth Social to the point he's always sleeping at his meetings) and the fact he keeps taking those tests to prove he has mental stamina to keep going. As some late night comedians have pointed out, those are done not for intelligence measures but his cognitive abilities. So like you and like Reagan after leaving office, some of his memory may be slipping too! I suppose if many of the people around him aren't concerned enough, like Joe's people were with him, then maybe they really don't think he's off his meds yet so to speak. But he is way up there at Biden and Reagan's age, so one should definitely be concerned about that if anyone could help it. I mean, while I don't want J.D. Vance to replace him, it's possible that day may come sometime before Jan. 20, 2029...
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