New Delhi, March 30 -- Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, recently sparked a wide-ranging discussion on X with a set of tweets arguing that fears around artificial general intelligence (AGI) causing mass unemployment are misplaced.

Andreessen, a prominent Silicon Valley investor known for backing major technology companies and shaping discourse around software and AI, framed the current panic as rooted in economic misunderstanding.

Andreessen said the concern follows a predictable chain of reasoning. It starts with the assumption that AGI will perform all cognitive work and ends with the conclusion that humans will have no jobs left. He wrote: "AGI will be capable of performing any cognitive task a human can perform. th...