Silicon Valley rushes to save the case for techno-optimism after Marc Andreessen’s hallucination of a manifesto

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Hi there, it’s Rachyl Jones with the tech team. On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke at the WSJ Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif.—just another day in this year of AI, in which AI experts, especially the crew from OpenAI, have become seemingly ubiquitous on the tech conference circuit and in the news.

With new technologies, and specifically artificial general intelligence, humanity will be able to “solve all sorts of problems,” said Altman. In 10 years, he predicted, “people are going to say, ‘How can we say we didn’t want this?’”