We could have a revolution education. We could have far better education, a far lower cost. We could have a revolution in health care. There's all kinds of things that are possible now that we're impossible before. We could be in a world here within a decade where robots are building all the houses at far cheaper prices than today. Technology is a lever that could cause all those things happen. It is really remarkable that China has decided that open source AI is something that is good and that they want to exist and that they want to propagate.

We're in a weird state of the world where the supposedly totalitarian regime is trying to open up the technology,

and the supposedly democratic governance system is trying to restrict and control the technology.

We live in this bifurcated economy where we've decided that some sectors are going to be subject to technological change

and price declines and productivity growth. And some sectors are not. As the prices for the blue

sectors collapse, deflation, and as the prices for the red sectors inflate dramatically,

what happens mathematically, right, is that the red sector is eat the entire economy,

which is what's happening, right? Which is health care, education, housing, law, government,

are eating the entire economy. Artificial intelligence is often described as a technology story.

Mark Andresen sees it as something bigger. In this conversation with CSIS's Navine Girishankar,

Mark argues that AI has the potential to expand access to intelligence itself, putting world-class expertise

into the hands of billions of people.

But realizing that potential will depend on more than just better models.

The discussion explores productivity growth, infrastructure, regulation, industrial policy,

U.S.-China competition, and the question of whether America's institutions

can adapt quickly enough to take advantage of one of the most important technological shifts in history.

Exponential growth is seductive, starting slowly and virtually unnoticeably,

but beyond the knee of the curve it turns explosive and profoundly

transformative.

Those are the words of futurist and author Ray Kurzweil.

He argues that two world wars, the Cold War, and every major economic upheaval of the

last century failed to make the slightest dent in the pace of technological progress.

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