The Will to Progress - The American Conservative

President Biden signed an executive order on “ Safe, Secure , and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence ” The order requires developers to do a variety of things: share safety test results with the federal government, prevent A.I. from conducting dangerous bioengineering, protect consumers, transform education, and advance equity and civil rights.

Julian Zelizer : If technologists wish to form a more virtuous elite, they must attempt something greater than satiation through hyper-consumption.

The Manifesto proclaims a program of human emancipation, achieved by using technology to “make everything we want and need abundant” This is particularly ironic, given how many times the Manifesto condemns communism.

In the end, Andreessen ’s techno-capital machine will neither free humanity to be our best selves, nor will it enslave us to its own purposes.

It is a vision of “ 50 billion people” enslaved to their own gluttony.