Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Venture capital investor Marc Andreessen doesn’t care about the response of people who say AI can take over human jobs.

The co-founder of Silicon Valley investment company Andreessen Horowitz is known for writing long memos in which he defends the world of technology, the sector that made him a billionaire.

Most recently, he created a manifesto containing 5,000 words about past, present and future civilizations built on innovation.

“We believe in the romanticism of technology, industry,” he wrote, quoted from InsiderThursday (26/10/2023).

“Trains, cars, electric lights, skyscrapers, microchips, neural networks, rockets, split atoms,” he rattled off a list of technological innovations that changed the world.

In the memo, he said that technological development is very good for humanity, because it can increase wealth, happiness and ensure security.

He even said that anyone who hinders the progress of AI and other leading technologies is an enemy.

“We believe any slowdown in AI will cost many lives,” he said.

Andreessen and other prominent Silicon Valley figures such as Y Combinator president Garry Tan quietly added the term e/acc to their social media profiles.

This term refers to “effective acceleration”, the idea that technology should be developed as fully and quickly as possible with minimal or no constraints. In his manifesto, Andreessen calls this technological optimism.

The concept is a new belief in Silicon Valley today, and Andreessen is its chief preacher.

Its mission is even more enthusiastic with the presence of ChatGPT and other practical applications based on artificial intelligence.

“Technological optimists believe that growth is progress,” Andreessen said, adding that growth should be driven by unimpeded technological progress.

Like a preacher, Andreessen needs enemies to oppose, like ethicists, lawmakers, and everyday people who worry that AI will replace jobs, destroy the climate, or influence elections and possibly destroy the world.

In his manifesto, he warned about the dangers of too much bureaucracy which could lead to stagnation.

Today’s society, he claims, has been subjected to a six-decade-long campaign of mass demoralization under various guises ranging from existential risk, sustainability, stakeholder capitalism, risk management, and technological ethics.

Andreessen’s opinion will not surprise anyone who knows his background. The investor had a hand in shaping the development of web browsers in the 1990s with Netscape, and continues to make profitable investments in technology companies such as Instagram and Google.

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