A.I. doomers are a ‘cult’

• On Tuesday, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word missive on his views on artificial intelligence and the risks it poses.
• Andreessen emphasizes that AI isn’t sentient, despite the fact that its ability to mimic human language can fool people into thinking otherwise.
• “AI doesn’t want, it doesn’t have goals, it doesn’t want to kill you, because it’s not alive,” he wrote.

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is known for saying that “software is eating the world.” When it comes to artificial intelligence, he claims people should stop worrying and build, build, build.

On Tuesday, Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word missive on his views on AI, the risks it poses and the regulation he believes it requires. In trying to counteract all the recent talk of “AI doomerism,” he presents what could be seen as an overly idealistic perspective of the implications.

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