Shigler: I don't expect it to be very good at making decisions where there's serious tradeoffs. But in economics, we say there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. And happier is not the only thing I care about. We should use them to offload all the work that we can offload onto them so that we can spend our time on the bigger questions. Shigler: This is quote unquote, just another machine. It's more sophisticated than the ones we've had before.
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.