Andreessen: Biden AI executive order was surprisingly benign regarding direct mandates
Marc Andreessen · America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen · Mar 13, 2024 · at 11:05
Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the Biden administration's executive order on artificial intelligence in conversation with economist Tyler Cowen.
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“Yeah. So the best thing about it is it did not it did not, it didn't overtly attempt to kill AI so that, that, that was good. You never know what these things, you know, what they're gonna, you know, what, how much teeth they're gonna try to put into it, and then of course, you know, there's always the question of whether that it stands up in court, but it wasn't, it, like, there were things that were being discussed in the process that were much, much worse and I think much, much more hostile to the technology than ended up being in it, so I think that's good news. I think it was quite benign in terms of it's just like flat-out directives, Which is good.”
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