[Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of a16z, Joins Federal Reserve AI Task Force to Study AI's Impact on Productivity and Employment] According to Golden Finance, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has announced that Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, will join the "Productivity and Employment" task force led by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. The task force will focus on studying the impact of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on economic growth, the job market, and production efficiency. Other members of the task force include Stanford University economics professor Charles I. Jones (currently on leave working at Anthropic) and Microsoft Executive Vice President and Xbox head Asha Sharma. It is reported that Marc Andreessen has previously publicly supported Warsh for the position of Federal Reserve Chairman. He once stated on social platform X that Warsh "possesses both economic and financial insight, as well as a profound understanding of technology and business."