AI policy should prioritize 'winning' (maintaining U.S. technological leadership) rather than applying the precautionary principle (regulating hypothetical future harms before they occur), because AI is currently math-based automation with no sentience, self-improvement, or emergent intelligence, and over-restricting it would cede dominance to China.

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Marc Andreessen

Evidence Quote

we have to win...hamstring in it in a way that will prevent us from winning is probably worse than anything that we're going to prevent...right now it's a lot of math...it is absolutely not sentient...the precautionary principle...the people pushing that are often going for regulatory capture

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Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startupsa16z
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:34:37 AM

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