AI Won't Cause Unemployment
I can&#x27;t help but think Andreesen&#x27;s gone off the deep end a bit, especially after he started gushing over Adam Neumann&#x27;s second run at a real estate company (“We think it is natural that for his first venture since WeWork, Adam returns to the theme of connecting people through transforming their physical spaces and building communities where people spend the most time: their homes.”).<p>&gt; AI is simply already illegal across most of the economy, soon to be virtually all of the economy.<p>This just isn&#x27;t true - AI won&#x27;t necessarily be a product in the sectors he&#x27;s talking about, but it&#x27;ll absolutely improve them. Hospital services? AI is clearly going to be involved, at least in things like radiology. College tuition? I suppose that depends on how much the value of higher education remains in scarce brand names vs. education, but clearly AI is going to open up educational opportunities in a way that brings the costs way down.<p>And then AI will eventually (and to be clear, it might be a while) get us to general-purpose robots. He says &quot;Those industries are monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels, with extensive formal government regulation as well as regulatory capture, price fixing, Soviet style price setting, occupational licensing, and every other barrier to improvement and change you can possibly imagine.&quot; but in an industry like construction, if you accept what he&#x27;s saying, all of that control is in the hands of the rich folks at the top. What he&#x27;s suggesting is that they&#x27;ll protect the jobs of construction workers when they can replace them with cheaper, more efficient robots who are exempt from safety standards.