Mark Andreessen

Well, look, if we didn't have AI, we'd be in a panic right now about what's going to happen to the economy, right?

Because what we would be staring at is a future of depopulation and like depopulation without new technology would just mean that the economy shrinks, right?

So it would mean that the economy kind of itself kind of shrinks over time.

You know, the opportunity diminishes.

There are no new jobs.

There are no new fields.

There's no new source of consumer demand for spending on things.

And so you would be very worried about going into a period of like severe decline of stagnation.

And essentially, you'd be looking at these very dystopian scenarios of an economy kind of self-euthanizing itself over time.

And you'd be very worried about the opposite of what everybody thinks that they're worried about.

The only reason we're not worried about that is because we now know that we have the technology that can substitute for the lack of population growth and then also for the lack of immigration that's likely.

And so, you know, I would say the timing has worked out miraculously well in the sense that we're going to have AI and robots precisely when we actually need them to keep the economy from actually shrinking.

There's no question that bringing everybody along is really the single most important thing to do.

And the fact of the matter is, it is unlikely most people will lose a job to AI.

it is most likely that most people lose their job to somebody who uses AI.

And so we have to make sure that everybody use AI.

It is also the case, you hear many examples of this, where somebody used to be a carpenter, but because of AI, they're now an architect.

You know you could describe things into AI and it comes out with an incredible design, incredible draft.

And they can be interior designers.

And so they elevate their craft, they elevate their service and elevate their business to a level to be able to offer more.