‘Techno-Optimism’ is Not Something You Should Believe In

Techno-optimism, the worldview Marc Andreessen set out in a recent manifesto, is argued here to be a faith that justifies elite power and indifference to human suffering. The article says the manifesto claims technology will solve all of humanity's problems, dismisses AI skeptics as murderers, and treats social responsibility and sustainable development goals as enemy ideas. It contends that Andreessen supports these beliefs with assertion rather than evidence, and it cites market failures such as 77 percent of global farmland being used to fatten livestock and vaccine apartheid linked to more than a million avoidable deaths.