Quotesby GlyphSteven Sinofsky quotes on AI, with sources
Board partner, Andreessen Horowitz · 8 quotes · latest Jul 11, 2026
- In the case of AI, the connection of AI to freedom of expression is unshakable and irrefutable.
- The easiest algorithm I have for this is to ask if some new technology will be used by the government alone before it is approved or neutered for use by everyone else. If that is the case then history tells us the technology is being used for control or even oppression first and foremost.
- But with AI, we fast-forwarded: from paradigm to tools in under a decade, now used by hundreds of millions.
- The challenge is the future doesn’t just wait around for everyone to come to a consensus.
- Writing and learning with AI is the typewriter, the word processor, the encyclopedia, and the almanac rolled into one. Seeing it as something scarier than that is just fear of new tools and new paradigms.
- Enterprise IT is excited because one big promise of AI, especially agentic AI, is that everything will connect to everything.
- It was either going to be a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly clustered around trillion-dollar companies in the US.
- The cost of AI, like the cost of mainframe computing to X.25 connectivity (the early pre-TCP/IP protocol for connecting computers over phone lines), literally forces the market to develop an alternative that scales without the massive direct capital.
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Topics: Regulation, Education, Platform shift, Agents, Enterprise AI, Open source
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