Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation

BY Beatrice Nolan
May 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM EDT


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In a recent podcast, Andreessen said that venture capital might be one of the few jobs that will survive the rise of AI automation. He said this was partly because the job required several “intangible” skills and was more of an art than a science.

“A lot of it is psychological analysis, like, ‘Who are these people?’ ‘How do they react under pressure?’ ‘How do you keep them from falling apart?’ ‘How do you keep them from going crazy?’ ‘How do you keep from going crazy yourself?’ You know, you end up being a psychologist half the time,” he said.

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“The great part of venture capitalism is that picking is the small part of the game,” he said. “So much of what a venture capitalist firm is are its relationships with the world, because to build a company, you end up needing a lot of relationships.”

“So, it is possible—I don’t want to be definitive—but it’s possible that that is quite literally timeless. And when, you know, when the AI is doing everything else, that may be one of the last remaining fields that people are still doing,” he continued.

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Marc Andreessen on AI Copyright Issues: But What About Muh Money?
Andreessen Horowitz wants to make sure everybody's on the same page about not paying artists for their work.

By Lucas Ropek
Published November 9, 2023

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While the big players in AI like OpenAI and Google are busy schmoozing world leaders and using lobbyists to work the refs, Andreessen Horowitz is taking to the comments to defend wealthy investors over the unwashed masses of the creative class.

In its own comment to the US Copyright Office, Andreessen Horowitz shared its opinions on the matter, Insider reports. “The bottom line is this,” the ridiculously wealthy firm wrote. “Imposing the cost of actual or potential copyright liability on the creators of AI models will either kill or significantly hamper their development.” The firm went on to argue that the only reasonable way to train AI was using “something approaching the entire corpus of the written word” and “an enormous cross-section of all of the publicly available information ever published on the internet.”

In other words, according to a company run by boring, money-obsessed people who seem bereft of any artistic inclinations whatsoever, you just can’t expect AI companies to go around paying artistic people for their work. That’d be silly, because it would get in the way of using those people’s work to create software programs designed to make similar (albeit worse) content for free.

In its Copyright Office comment, Andreessen Horowitz also made the somewhat unhinged argument that America simply won’t be able to defend itself if the government doesn’t sell out every author, painter, comedian, and filmmaker to a small coterie of tech companies and the moneymen backing them (i.e., Andreessen Horowitz). The company claimed that undermining AI could jeopardize not only U.S. “economic competitiveness” but also “national security.” Translation: not allowing us to get rich off the backs of artists could mean we lose a war with China.

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