AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, a16z’s own cofounder Marc Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word article that aimed to dispel fears over AI's risks to our humanity – both real and imagined. Instead, Marc elaborates on how AI can "make everything we care about better." In this timely one-on-one conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado, Marc discusses how this technology will maximize human potential, why the future of AI should be decided by the free market, and most importantly, why AI won’t destroy the world. In fact, it may save it. Read Marc’s full article “Why AI Will Save the World” here: https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/

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0:00.0	Good news. I have good news. No, AI is not going to murder every person on the planet.
0:05.5	There's lots of domains of human activity and human expression the computers have been
0:08.8	useless for up until now because they're just hyper literal and all of a sudden they're
0:12.4	actually creative partners tools are used by people. because they're just hyper literal and all of a sudden they're actually
0:12.8	creative partners tools are used by people I don't really go in for like a lot of
0:16.8	the narratives where it's like oh the machine's you know going to come alive
0:18.8	and going to have its own goals and so forth like that's not on machines work
0:21.1	sitting here today in the US we have a cartel of defense contractors, right?
0:24.5	We have a cartel of banks, we have a cartel of universities, we have a cartel of
0:27.8	insurance companies, we have a cartel of media companies.
0:30.4	Like there are all these cases where this has actually happened and you look at
0:33.2	any one of those industries and you're like wow what a terrible result like let's not
0:36.6	do that again and then here we are on the verge of doing it again. The actual
0:40.1	experience of using these systems today is it's actually a lot more like love right and I'm not saying that they literally are conscious of they love you but like or maybe the analogy you almost be more like a puppy like they're like really smart puppies right which is cheap E.T just wants to make you happy.
0:55.3	If you were on the internet last week you may have seen a six disease co-founder Mark
1:00.4	and treason drop a 7,000 word juggernaut titled AI will save the world.
1:07.8	Well if you read that and had questions or are scrambling to catch up
1:15.0	Mark sat down with a6 and C general partner, Martine Kasato, to discuss why. Despite so many people telling us otherwise,
1:20.0	AI may actually save the world.
1:24.1	They cover how 80 years of research and development has finally culminated in this technology
1:29.0	in the hands of the masses, but also how this impacts many topics like economic growth, geopolitics, job loss,
1:36.7	inequality, and in the arc of technological progress, whether things are any different this time around.
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