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.”