Marc Andreessen is predicting that at least one job is safe from the rise of AI: his own.
Marc Andreessen says that VCs may escape the rising tide of AI automation. On a recent podcast, he said the relationship-driven art of venture capital may make it one of the last remaining fields that people are still doing when other jobs are automated.
Challenge accepted.
Venture capitalism? Man that dude is getting high on his own bullshit.
Science won’t be replaced by LLMs.
Trades won’t be replaced.
Basically jobs that shouldn’t exist will be replaced. Middle management, (hopefully) C-suite, possibly assembly and customer service.
The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.
Large language models fall well within this definition. They’re narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say “this isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.
This sums it up:
AI can’t tell you what’s true or not, so it can’t tell you when you’re wrong.
I find it much easier to imagine an AI VC than an AI plumber.
It already exists. Quite literally there’s an AI VC based largely on him: https://www.theblock.co/post/323192/marc-andreesen-shoutouts-help-ai-powered-vc-fund-ai16z-to-nearly-100-million-market-cap
Well of course owners aren’t going to replace themselves. They’re the owners, not the lowly workers. It’s like how owners exempt themselves from return to office mandates or how employees are fired if they find out you have another full time job yet owners “run” multiple businesses.
They don’t have to replace themselves. If LLMs can do the job (which is an open question) it will be outsiders who use LLMs to replace them.
I read the headline and had one thought: let me guess, his job?
