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Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe From AI: Venture Capitalist
In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's.
The reasons for this are well known: through his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the billionaire has invested in a broad array of AI-related ventures, which, he assumes, will both pay dividends and make the world a better place. During a recent a16z podcast appearance, Andreessen predicted that venture capital (you know, his job) might be one of the last remaining vocations after AI has replaced large swaths of the human labor force. It’s just funny to hear Andreessen repeat the oft-heard refrain that “technology is awesome and everything, but there’s just no way it could ever do what I do.” This is what people have been telling themselves since forever, and it’s usually right before they lose their job to whatever the current form of automation is.
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