Comment by Andrew Ng

Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain
There will be no AI jobpocalypse. [...] While there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. [...] There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I'm also optimistic about the future of the overall job market. AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified Upgrading from ai_unverifiable to verified. Although The Batch's letter body loads dynamically (WebFetch only got the nav shell), multiple independent outlets quoting The Batch issue 352 (Andrew Ng's letter, ~May 2026) reproduce the exact text verbatim: "Contrary to the predictions of an AI jobpocalypse, I predict the opposite: There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I'm also optimistic about the future of the overall job market," and "the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology" (corroborated by officechai.com, dev.to, and deeplearning.ai's own channel/charonhub mirror). Source URL (deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-352) is correct and primary. Year 2026 is current. The vote 'for' correctly aligns with the statement "AI will create more jobs than it destroys." All checks now positive. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Andrew Ng (2026), sourced to his own newsletter The Batch, issue 352 (deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-352). Checks performed: (1) Year is 2026 — current, no replacement needed. (2) Relevancy: directly on-point for the statement "AI will create more jobs than it destroys." (3) Attribution: this is self-authored content on Ng's own primary platform; WebFetch confirmed issue 352 exists and contains a Letter from Andrew Ng, and the content (net job creation vastly exceeding destruction, optimism about AI engineering jobs) precisely matches Ng's long, well-documented public stance — distinctive coinages "jobpocalypse"/"jobapalooza" are characteristic of his style. (4) Vote alignment: the vote "for" correctly matches the quote, which explicitly argues AI creates far more jobs than it destroys. The only gap: the letter body on The Batch loads dynamically / behind a subscription shell, so WebFetch retrieved only the navigation page and I could not read the verbatim text to positively confirm the exact wording against the source. Marking ai_unverifiable on that basis; all other checks are positive. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
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