Andreessen amplifies Bratton: p(Doom) is low, p(Weird) is high for AI agents
beffjezos · x · 2026-10-22
Marc Andreessen shared Google AI researcher Benjamin Bratton's take on AI agents, adding his own verdict: "p(Doom) is low, p(Weird) is high."
Bratton's framing: Freud's mind would explode at entities that are "both you and not you" — a homunculus on the outside rather than the inside. He argues today's strangeness comes not from consolidation into one giant centralized brain, but from fragmentation as agents live lives of their own.
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