Federal Reserve Names Marc Andreessen to Co-Lead New AI Productivity and Jobs Task Force

Summary

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh announced five new task forces intended to modernize how the central bank analyzes the economy, and named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead the highest-profile of them: a Productivity and Jobs task force charged with assessing "the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence." Andreessen co-leads alongside Charles I. Jones (a Stanford economist specializing in technology-driven growth) and Asha Sharma (Xbox CEO