If you have been seeing another round of AI apocalypse headlines, Andrew Ng has thoughts. In a Thursday interview on Bloomberg TV, he said sweeping doomsday scenarios are "much more science fiction than science" and argued they risk slowing down AI's upside for society. He added that the industry helped fan similar fears earlier in the AI boom to juice publicity and shape rules, saying, "This wave of PR has kicked up again, for probably similar purposes." Ng appeared on Bloomberg Tech with Ed Ludlow. His background lends authority: he was among the early builders of Google Brain and Coursera Inc.
This month, Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI, quit in a high-profile departure and said the companies were "gambling with our lives" by "racing toward super-intelligent AI," adding that the technology could "kill us all by the end of the decade." Earlier this week a researcher who recently left Google DeepMind also warned that time is running short to stop AI from causing broad harm. Against that backdrop, figures including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman have urged the field to slow efforts on frontier systems and to implement additional protections for what lies ahead. Ng noted he has collaborated with both earlier in their careers.
Ng does not deny hazards. He flags real concerns, including how AI could amplify cybersecurity capabilities. He also says systems will never be perfectly predictable. His argument is that rigorous testing, safety tools, and engineering can make AI steadily safer, and he cautioned that reining in development across the board could slow that safety progress too. He urged focusing on "practical engineering problems" so AI can be used for "many of the wonderful things it can do."
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What should you take away? Expect an ongoing tug of war between speed and safety. That balance will influence how quickly smarter features land in the products and services you use, and how reliable they feel when they get there.
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