Marc Andreessen on How AI, Culture, and Regulation Will Shape Tomorrow’s World (Replay)

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Marc Andreessen (1:07)

I think the AI censorship wars are going to be a thousand times more intense and a thousand times more important.

Tom Bilyeu (1:12)

My guest today is someone who doesn't just keep up with innovation, he creates it. The incredible Marc Andreessen. Trust me, when someone like Marc, who spent his entire career betting on the future, says this is the next major disruption, you need to listen.

Marc Andreessen (1:27)

From a political standpoint, we should hope that we have rapid technology progress, because if we have rapid technology progress, we'll have rapid economic growth. Do people care?

And are people going to be willing to stand up for this? And I think that's what's required.

Tom Bilyeu (1:38)

It's going to displace a lot of jobs. Some of those people will redistribute themselves by acquiring new skills. Other people will not. This isn't something to think about tomorrow. You've got to be prepared today. So let's dive right in. I bring you Marc Andreessen.

Marc Andreessen, welcome to the podcast.

Marc Andreessen (1:58)

Awesome. Thank you for having me.

Tom Bilyeu (2:00)

My pleasure. Now you've had an insane amount of success betting on where industries are going. So let me ask you, what is the most radical disruption that you see coming in the near future with AI?

Marc Andreessen (2:14)

You know, I just say we're convinced AI is one of those moments of fundamental change. And in the tech industry, these come along every couple of decades, but they're not frequent.

And this one is up there with the microprocessor and the computer and the Internet for sure, and maybe bigger. And so for us in the tech industry, this is I think a very, very, very profound, powerful moment. And of course, you're already seeing a lot of the effects that are already playing out. But this technology is going to change a lot of things, and it's going to be, I think, very, very exciting.

Tom Bilyeu (2:53)

So for people that don't know, you have a fundamentally optimistic view of AI, of technology in general. Do you have, from an investment strategy, do you guys have a thesis on what industry you think is going to be most advantaged by AI that you're trying to get into?

Marc Andreessen (3:11)

Yeah, there are many. So we're involved in many. I would say there's some obvious slam dunk ones. Since I would say healthcare is a slam dunk one, I actually just happened to have lunch with Demas Hassibus, who just won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on protein folding.

Tom Bilyeu (3:26)

Not a bad lunch date.

Marc Andreessen (3:28)

Yeah, exactly. And he was knighted this year also, so he's also Sir Demas. But he and his colleagues basically have this transformative approach that they believe is going to lead to dramatic breakthroughs in the development of medicine in the years ahead powered by AI. So healthcare is an obvious one. Entertainment is one that I think is going to be extremely exciting what happens from here and again, that's already starting to play out. And you're already seeing just sort of incredible creativity being applied to that. And so you could kind of maybe bookend it by saying those, this is kind of the most serious one and the most fun one. But then look, there's lots of other stuff. Probably the single biggest question I'm asking right now is robotics.

There's been the promise of robotics saturating our society and everybody having robots in the home and everybody having robots to do everything manual labor and wash the dishes and pack the suitcase and clean the toilet and conceivably everything, the manual labor, kind of free people from manual labor. And that's been a promise, going back, in science fiction, it's been a promise for like 120 years. And until recently, we were no closer than we were maybe back then. But you're starting to see very dramatic, I think, breakthroughs. And I think sort of drones that now work, like autonomous drones are now a standard thing, self-flying, self-piloting drones, you now have self-driving cars that are now a thing, and now work really well. And I think it may be humanoid robots and all kinds of other forms of robots.