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Andrew Ng on AGI

Said

AI able to do any human intellectual task was still decades away or longer, despite rapid practical progress.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

Responding to a student's fear that AGI would eliminate meaningful future work, he distinguished today's general-purpose AI from universal intellectual competence.

Source notes

Author-signed opening letter in issue 327, published November 12, 2025.