Marc Andreessen on Why AI Will Save the World

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Marc Andreessen thinks AI will make everything better--if only we get out of the way. He argues that in every aspect of human activity, our ability to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge results in better outcomes. Listen as the entrepreneur and venture capitalist speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about AI's potential to improve the world and why those who fear that AI will destroy humanity are wildly over-reacting.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.5	10 is due 12th, 2023.
0:39.6	My guest is entrepreneur and venture capitalist Mark Indriessen, co-founder and general
0:44.2	partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andriessen Horowitz, sometimes known
0:48.9	as a 16z.
0:50.8	This is Mark's third appearance on econtalk.
0:52.7	He was last year in May of 2022 discussing software immortality and Bitcoin.
0:58.4	Mark, welcome back to econtalk.
1:00.5	Good morning, Russ.
1:01.5	Thanks for having me back.
1:03.1	Our topic for today is your recent essay, Why AI Will Save the World?
1:08.5	You recently posted it on the a 16z website and of course we will link to that.
1:13.7	You argue that AI artificial intelligence will make everything better if we let it bolt
1:20.0	claim and current climate.
1:22.7	Give us some examples and why you're optimistic that that is the path we're on.
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