a16z's Martin Casado: handicapping AI hurts good actors more than bad ones
SuB8u · x · 2026-10-26
a16z partner Martin Casado argues we're in yet another round of learning that handicapping systems hurts good folks more than it inhibits bad ones — true for crypto, scanners, and backdoor mandates, and now anecdotally true for AI.
The post is a concise statement of the Silicon Valley anti-restriction position, framing AI guardrails as repeating the failures of past technology controls.
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