Comment by Marc Andreessen

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. AI Unverifiable source (2023)
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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 · 9d ago
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