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Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain
I'm struggling to see how AI could pose any meaningful risks for our extinction. [...] I don't see how it can lead to human extinction.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote directly addresses AI causing human extinction and says the author does not see how AI could pose meaningful extinction risk, which clearly opposes the statement that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The author says they are "struggling to see how AI could pose any meaningful risks for our extinction" and "don't see how it can lead to human extinction," which clearly rejects the claim. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Verified: Fox Business (June 5, 2023) and AI Business (June 7, 2023) both attribute this wording to Andrew Ng; AI Business shows the full sentence sequence, so the user’s ellipsis faithfully omits the middle without changing meaning. The supplied SiliconANGLE article discusses the same position but does not itself print the quote verbatim. ([foxbusiness.com](https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/coursera-co-founder-andrew-ng-argues-ai-poses-no-meaningful-risk-human-extinction)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Replaced the 2015 quote (older than 2025/2026) with a more recent 2023 quote from Andrew Ng. Verified via web search: SiliconANGLE (Oct 31, 2023) and multiple other sources document Ng saying "I'm struggling to see how AI could pose any meaningful risks for our extinction" and "I don't see how it can lead to human extinction." Vote "against" the statement "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" correctly aligns with Ng's position that AI extinction risk is overblown. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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