Andrew Ng Quotes

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

If our institutions can’t build consensus and respond to the demand of Americans for jobs today, how will we ever do it in a time when artificial intelligence and robotics kick in and five times that number of jobs disappear twice as fast?

If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs.

The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

I'm not yet convinced that we will face an unemployment problem created by AI. There will certainly be some occupations eliminated - drivers of vehicles, many production jobs, etc. Whether this creates mass unemployment depends on how quickly this happens. If it happens overnight, it will be a huge disruption.

The robots are coming, whether we like it or not, and will change our economy in dramatic ways.

What people are now realizing is that this formula that technology destroys jobs and creates jobs, even if it's basically true, it's too simplistic.

My honest answer to what's going to happen to the future of jobs is I don't know.

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

I don't think that artificial intelligence means doomsday, and I think many new jobs will be created, too. However, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that these new types of jobs will favor low-income demographics. We need to address the needs of those who will be left out of the new job market.

In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

As we consider the implications of AI, there is a bright future ahead for countries that invest and participate.

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.

The bottom line is that while automation is eliminating many jobs in the economy that were once done by people, there is no sign that the introduction of technologies in recent years is creating an equal number of well-paying jobs to compensate for those losses.

Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.

I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.

As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns the all-powerful algorithms, creating unprecedented social and political inequality. Alternatively, the algorithms might themselves become the owners.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.