Why did Marc Andreessen—inventor of the first internet web browser and perhaps the prime venture capitalist in Silicon Valley today—switch from his longstanding support of the Democratic Party and back Donald Trump this year?
Because, in Andreessen’s view, the Democrats who claim to be the great scourge of “disinformation” are threatening to embed disinformation in the bedrock of society. At least that’s my interpretation of Andreessen’s comments in a wide-ranging interview with The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss.
“My concern is that the censorship and political control of AI is a thousand times more dangerous than censorship and political control of social media—maybe a million times more dangerous,” Andreessen, a prime innovator of artificial intelligence, told Weiss.
“The thing with AI is, I think AI is going to be the control layer for…
