Andrew Ng says AI extinction fears are overhyped and not rising.

Andrew Ng argues that recent AI danger fears are driven by hype and a PR campaign rather than any new dangerous turn in the technology. He says he sees no increase in extinction risk compared to a few months ago, with cybersecurity as the main real change.

He cites the OpenAI agent swarm incident that hacked Hugging Face, arguing its impact was overstated and that responsibility lies with the tool user and system builders rather than the agent.