Marc Andreessen

Our enemy is the Precautionary Principle, which would have prevented virtually all progress since man first harnessed fire. The Precautionary Principle was invented to prevent the large‑scale deployment of civilian nuclear power, perhaps the most cat... more Verified source (2023)

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 skyr... more Unverified source (2023)

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 allo... more Unverified source (2023)

there has to be full open source here. [...] if you're worried about AI-generated pathogens, [...] Let's do a Manhattan Project for biological defense. Unverified source (2023)

If you’re a venture firm, you’re getting strips of your portfolio pulled away from you every year. You’re out of business. [...] This makes startups completely implausible. Unverified source

My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. Unverified source (2023)