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Comment by Andrew Ng
Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain
There’s also a lot of hype, that AI will create evil robots with super-intelligence. That’s an unnecessary distraction. Those of us on the frontline shipping code, we’re excited by AI, but we don’t see a realistic path for our software to become sentient. There's a big difference between intelligence and sentience. There could be a race of killer robots in the far future, but I don’t work on not turning AI evil today for the same reason I don't worry about the problem of overpopulation on the planet Mars.AI Verified source (2015)
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Verified: the supplied The Register URL redirects to a March 19, 2015 article that attributes these exact sentences to Andrew Ng. The article contains the 'There’s also a lot of hype ... That’s an unnecessary distraction,' 'Those of us on the frontline shipping code ... become sentient,' and 'There's a big difference between intelligence and sentience ... overpopulation on the planet Mars' lines verbatim; the article then continues with one additional sentence, so your text is an exact excerpt from a longer quoted passage. ([theregister.com](https://www.theregister.com/2015/03/19/andrew_ng_baidu_ai/))
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YouCongress
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· 18d ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (theregister.com) returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch, blocking direct verification. However, web search confirms the quote is widely attributed to Andrew Ng from his March 2015 GTC talk in San Jose (also corroborated by Quote Investigator). The vote alignment (against "AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence") is consistent with Ng's stated position. Tried to find a recent 2025/2026 replacement quote — Ng's position remains similar (he called AGI "overhyped" at Y Combinator in 2025) — but news sources (Fortune, NBC, Yahoo, TheStreet, Fast Company) also block WebFetch, so I couldn't grab a verbatim sourced quote to substitute.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Andrew Ng