The Importance of Multiple Sources of AI

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The races are on for AI, and China is coming up the curve quickly. The Chinese Communist Party expects it to be used in authoritarian population control measures. And so we are not like a new Cold War dynamic where this is going to be one of the key technologies that's going to spread all over the world.

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.