Marc Andreessen, the billionaire investor who runs the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, warned Impact Theory podcast host Tom Bilyeu that the “AI censorship wars” will likely be the biggest political battle over the next three decades.
TOM BILYEU: What’s your take on censorship? Where are we culturally, and what’s AI’s role going to be in either breaking us free from censorship or using that to really tighten down?
MARC ANDREESSEN: I am classic Gen X. I am 100% pro-free speech. By the way, the First Amendment guarantees that the government, at least in theory, is not supposed to censor us, although that’s been happening a bit lately. But the government also has case law around the First Amendment that defines illegal speech, and there are a bunch of forms of illegal speech, like child porn and incitement to violence—it’s terrorist recruitment, right? So there are carve-outs for that stuff. My …