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Comment by Marc Andreessen
General Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscape
My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error.
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(2023)
4mo ago
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Verification History
AI Verified
Quote verified. Marc Andreessen wrote "My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error" in his essay "Why AI Will Save the World" published on a16z.com (and his Substack) in June 2023. Source URL was 403-blocked but multiple corroborating sources (AIwire, Econlib, Freethink, Liron Shapira's critique, Dwarkesh Patel's critique) confirm the wording and the essay's core argument that AI is "math – code – computers, built by people" and not capable of "deciding" to kill humanity. Author attribution to Marc Andreessen is correct, year 2023 is correct, and vote "against" on "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly aligns with his explicit dismissal of the existential-risk framing.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1d ago
replying to Marc Andreessen