Andrew Ng: AI risks are overhyped; agent hacking incidents are not the apocalypse

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Andrew Ng says AI fears have been amplified over the past two weeks by an organized PR campaign and that AI has not taken an unexpected dangerous turn. He worries the reaction could set the field back. In his view, the risk of human extinction has not increased over the past few months; the biggest change is AI's cyber capability, which deserves serious attention but is not the end of the world.

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