Andrew Ng: pausing AI progress would do far more harm than good
Neurogence · reddit · 2026-09-22
Andrew Ng argues publicly against pausing AI progress on two grounds: adversaries certainly won't slow down, and engineering requires discovering problems empirically so they can be fixed. If AI were paused for a decade, finding and implementing safety engineering fixes would be delayed by roughly the same duration. He calls pausing AI an absolute disaster; the original post is a long read worth going through.
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