Comment by Marc Andreessen

General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape
It would mean a takeoff rate of economic productivity growth that would be absolutely stratospheric, far beyond any historical precedent. Prices of existing goods and services would drop across the board to virtually zero. Consumer welfare would skyrocket. Consumer spending power would skyrocket. New demand in the economy would explode. Entrepreneurs would create dizzying arrays of new industries, products, and services, and employ as many people and AI as they could as fast as possible to meet all the new demand. Suppose AI once again replaces that labor? The cycle would repeat, driving consumer welfare, economic growth, and job and wage growth even higher. It would be a straight spiral up to a material utopia that neither Adam Smith or Karl Marx ever dared dream of. AI Verified source (2023)
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AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Marc Andreessen's June 2023 essay "Why AI Will Save the World" published on a16z.com. The exact phrase "a straight spiral up to a material utopia that neither Adam Smith or Karl Marx ever dared dream of" is confirmed by search results. Andreessen's framing of AI driving stratospheric productivity growth and consumer welfare is documented across multiple sources (Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Axios). Source URL returned 403 to me but content is independently confirmed. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement "AGI will create abundance" - Andreessen is explicitly arguing AI will create material utopia. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4d ago
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