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

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 aninterviewwith Jack Altman on the Uncapped Podcast, the VC said different jurisdictions and cultures will likely demand AI models trained on material aligned with theirnotions 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.

“If you had a choice between AI with American values versus the Chinese Communist Party values. It is just crystal clear where you would want to go,” Andreessen added.

Artificial intelligence continues to be a technological sector with geopolitical implications, as world leaders, including United States President Donald Trump, have vowed tomake their countries global leaders in AIover the next several decades.

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Consumer fears about AI and the future of civilization persist

A recentpaperfrom tech giant Apple asserted that contemporaryAI models are still a long wayfrom achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).

However, this has not stopped analysts, consumers, and even software developers fromsounding the alarm on the dangersof artificial intelligence and its potential effects on human civilization.

These scenarios span a wide range of potentially destructive consequences borne of AI development, includingdisplacing human workers, automatically activating military weapons platforms, cyberattacks launched by rogue machines, and evensubverting the democratic processby spreading misinformation.

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