Andrew NG: Pausing AI Progress Will Create Much More Harm Than Benefit

Reddit r/singularity 09/21/26, 10:19 PM News

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Andrew Ng argues that pausing AI progress would cause more harm than good, as adversaries would continue advancing and it would delay critical safety engineering fixes.

Pausing AI progress will create much more harm than benefit. First, our adversaries will certainly not slow down. Second, engineering requires discovering problems empirically so we can fix them. If we pause AI by a decade, we will also delay finding and implementing safety engineering fixes by about the same duration. https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2102140576498065758 Very long post but it's worth reading. Pausing AI would be an absolute disaster.

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