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Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain
Guardrails are needed. But they should be applied to AI applications, not to general-purpose AI technology. Regulating the technology itself would stifle innovation and hold back the progress that benefits everyone. AI Unverifiable source (2023)
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Andrew Ng, year 2023, "against" statement #418 ("Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains"). Source: aifund.ai written statement before the U.S. Senate AI Insight Forum. Findings: (1) The source URL returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch, so I could not directly confirm the verbatim text on the page. Web search corroborates the quote is genuine and accurately attributed — it matches Ng's 2023 Senate AI Insight Forum written statement ("guardrails are needed. But they should be applied to AI applications, not... general-purpose AI technology"). (2) STALENESS: the quote is from 2023, older than 2025/2026; per protocol it should be replaced with a recent quote. I searched extensively for a recent (2025-2026) Ng quote specifically relevant to mandating human-in-the-loop oversight (Bain "Winning in the Agentic Era" conversation, The Batch letters, Fast Company), but all candidate sources are 403-blocked and search returned only paraphrases, so I could not establish a verifiable verbatim recent replacement. (3) RELEVANCE/VOTE concern: the 2023 quote is about regulating technology vs. applications generally and is only loosely about this statement's specific topic (human-in-the-loop oversight); notably, requiring human-in-the-loop oversight is itself an application-level guardrail that Ng tends to support, so the recorded "against" vote is questionable. Recommend a human revisit to replace with a current Ng quote and re-examine the vote direction. Marked ai_unverifiable because the source is blocked and no verifiable replacement could be obtained. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 8d ago
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