Top AI Investor Says His Companies Are Filled With "America-Hating Communists" Destroying Them From the Inside

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The billionaire was speaking to New York Times reporter Ross Douthat on his origins as an ally to the Democratic party, and his recent turn toward cornball libertarianism — otherwise known as effective accelerationism, or e/acc for short.

Elite institutions, he says, have been churning out radicalized graduates who are destroying his companies from the inside.

"The metaphor that I use here is we’re the dog that caught the bus," Andreessen conceded to Douthat, "and we got the tailpipe firmly between our jaws, and the bus is dragging us down the street".

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Author / Journalist: Joe Wilkins and Jon Christian

Category: Technology

Markets: United States

Topics: Andreessen horowitz Artificial intelligence Marc andreessen Artificial Intelligence Regulation

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Published On: 2025-01-18 @ 17:30:06 (17 hours ago)

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