Andrew Ng applauds India’s approach to AI regulation. He was speaking at an interview about his student and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. 

A media outlet quoted Andrew Ng that, “While we certainly need regulation, will a surfeit of regulations end up stifling innovation if not implemented well? We need good regulations on AI, and clarity on how we should or should not take any AI to areas such as healthcare, etc. The EU (European Union) and AI Act were thoughtful in some places and flawed in some places. It's a good idea to take a tiered approach to AI risk like using AI for screening people for jobs -- that's high risk, so let's make sure to mitigate that risk.”

He also stated that he was not very familiar with the Indian approach to regulation. But his sense is that India is taking a very light touch. And he thinks India’s approach is good. In fact, most Asian nations have been regulating AI with a much lighter touch, which has been a good move.

During the interview, he also spoke about his student and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. He stated that Altman is a good leader and that the current situation is very unfortunate.

According to Andrew Ng, Sam was his student at Stanford. He's been a great leader. In his opinion, what happened was pretty tragic and it could have been avoided (regarding sacking). OpenAI has many valuable assets, and reportedly more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, many customers, and a phenomenal product. But its governance structure is now very much discredited.

Commenting on the development of AGI, Andrew Ng stated that fewer Asian countries have been caught up with the AI extinction hype. It’s more of a European thing. The most widely accepted definition of AGI is that AI would do any intellectual task that a human could do. I think we're these decades away from that--maybe 30-50 years away. It turns out that there's a number of companies and people who are optimistic about achieving AGI in 3-5 years.