a16z VC Martin Casado explains why so many AI regulations are so wrong
The problem with most attempts at regulating AI so far is that lawmakers are focusing on some mythical future AI experience, instead of truly understanding the new risks AI actually introduces.
So argued Andreessen Horowitz general partner VC Martin Casado to a standing-room crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 last week. Casado, who leads a16z’s $1.25 billion infrastructure practice, has invested in such AI startups as World Labs, Cursor, Ideogram, and Braintrust.
“Transformative technologies and regulation has been this ongoing discourse for decades, right? So the thing with all the AI discourse is it seems to have kind of come out of nowhere,” he told the crowd. “They’re kind of trying to conjure net-new regulations without drawing from those lessons.”
For instance, he said, “Have you actually seen the definitions for AI in these policies? Like, we can’t even define it.”
