AI race between US and China resembles Cold War — Marc Andreessen

The venture capitalist warned that virtually all artificial intelligence platforms are being developed in either China or the United States.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the Andreessen-Horowitz venture capital (VC) firm, said that the current race to establish dominance in the artificial intelligence sector is analogous to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th Century.

In an interview with Jack Altman on the Uncapped Podcast, the VC said different jurisdictions and cultures will likely demand AI models trained on material aligned with their notions of acceptable social organization. Andreessen told Altman:

The VC said that AI will be the “future control layer for everything,” acting as the interface human beings use to access critical infrastructure and services across the healthcare, education, transportation, and legal domains.

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