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General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape
The development and proliferation of AI – far from a risk that we should fear – is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future. We should be living in a much better world with AI, and now we can. [...] Rather than allowing ungrounded panics around killer AI, “harmful” AI, job-destroying AI, and inequality-generating AI to put us on our back feet, we in the United States and the West should lean into AI as hard as we possibly can. We should seek to win the race to global AI technological superiority and ensure that China does not. In the process, we should drive AI into our economy and society as fast and hard as we possibly can, in order to maximize its gains for economic productivity and human potential.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement. The author says AI is 'far from a risk that we should fear,' calls panic around dangerous AI 'ungrounded,' and argues society should accelerate AI adoption, which is incompatible with claiming AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly rejects fear of AI, saying it is "far from a risk that we should fear" and dismissing "ungrounded panics around killer AI," so it opposes the claim that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI will create a permanent underclass
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the statement. The author calls fears about "inequality-generating AI" an "ungrounded panic" and argues society should adopt AI "as fast and hard as we possibly can," which indicates they reject the claim that AI will create a permanent underclass. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
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AI Verified The quote calls fears about "inequality-generating AI" an "ungrounded panic" and urges pushing AI into society "as fast and hard as we possibly can," which clearly opposes the claim that AI will create a permanent underclass. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Confirmed: the a16z article "Why AI Will Save the World" is attributed on-page to Marc Andreessen and dated June 6, 2023. The submitted excerpt matches the source verbatim apart from the allowed omission marker ([...]): the first passage appears at lines 150-152, and the later passages appear at lines 338-341 of the same URL. The stored author, date, source URL, and quoted content are correct. ([a16z.com](https://a16z.com/ai-will-save-the-world/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
Disputed The words are authentic and attributable to Marc Andreessen in the a16z article "Why AI Will Save the World," posted June 6, 2023, but the quote as presented is not a single verbatim passage from the source. The first block appears at lines 150-152, while the second block appears later at lines 338-341, with substantial omitted text between them that is not marked with [...]. That makes the presented quotation materially altered. ([a16z.com](https://a16z.com/ai-will-save-the-world/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Marc Andreessen from "Why AI Will Save the World" (a16z.com, published June 6, 2023). WebFetch on a16z.com source URL returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms verbatim the opening line "The development and proliferation of AI – far from a risk that we should fear – is a moral obligation that we have to ourselves, to our children, and to our future" and the essay's emphasis on winning the AI race vs. China. Year 2023 is correct. Vote "for" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Andreessen's strongly pro-AI, "lean in" position. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5mo ago
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