Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe From AI: Venture Capitalist

Egg-headed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is an optimist when it comes to artificial intelligence. 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. This week, we found out another reason that Andreessen doesn’t have any worries about the technology: he doesn’t think AI could ever possibly replace him. 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. “Every great venture capitalist in the last 70 years has missed most of the great companies of his generation,” Andreessen said during the podcast. “So, the great VCs have a success record of getting, you know, two out of 10 or something of the great companies of the decade.” Andreessen described his job ... Read full article.