Andreessen: AI will revive far-left dreams of central economic planning
Marc Andreessen · Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale · Jul 18, 2023 · at 48:00
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen discusses how AI will impact political governance models during a Q&A at the University of Austin.
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“AI is like gonna create a whole new set of dreams of state power, and like I said, the Chinese have one version of that, but, you know, on the far left even in the US, you have this idea the, there's a book called Fully Automated Luxury Communism which is this idea that like, finally with AI and big data and computers, we finally have the level of sophistication, you know, necessary through technology to be able to essentially plan and organize the economy and create a, you know, communist utopia on earth. And so, you know, AI is going to bring those ideas back by people who are into central planning.”
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