在科技行业热议人工智能所带来的潜在风险之际，微软Copilot项目的负责人表示，最大的担忧在于如何让这项技术的益处能够被广泛传播，而不是被少数几家公司垄断。微软Copilot项目的执行副总裁雅各布·安德烈乌（Jacob Andreou）在接受《Business Insider》采访时指出，微软最关注的人工智能风险就是“技术的普及”——即如何让人工智能真正惠及整个社会的个人和企业。
As the technology industry debates the existential risks of artificial intelligence, Microsoft's Copilot boss says the biggest concern is making sure the technology's benefits spread broadly rather than consolidating into a handful of companies. Jacob Andreou, Microsoft's executive vice president of Copilot, told Business Insider in an interview the AI risk that Microsoft spends most of its time thinking about is what it calls "diffusion," or making AI widely available to people and businesses throughout the economy.
“我们如何将原始的人工智能技术转化为能够真正改善人们生活质量的工具？当然，这些工具也会对所有企业乃至整个经济体系产生积极影响？”安德烈乌问道。“如果无法实现这种技术的普及，我确实担心经济价值会如何被少数几家公司所垄断。”
"How do we take raw intelligence and turn it into something that can be a true rising-tide benefit to people in their personal lives, and then certainly to the people that make up all of these corporations, and the broad economy?" Andreou said. "In a world where we fail to accomplish that diffusion, I do worry about what it looks like as value and as the economy centralizes into, like, a couple companies."
最近，关于人工智能长期影响的争论愈演愈烈：乐观主义者认为这项技术能够大幅提升生产力并催生新的产业；而批评者则警告称，掌握最先进人工智能模型的公司将占据大部分经济利益，从而加剧社会不平等并集中企业权力。微软首席执行官萨蒂亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）也在一份内部备忘录中表达了类似的观点。
A polarizing debate over AI's long-term impact has erupted lately. Optimists argue the technology could dramatically increase productivity and create new industries, while critics warn that the companies controlling the most advanced models could capture an outsized share of the economic gains, widening inequality and concentrating corporate power, or worse. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently weighed in on the debate in a memo viewed by Business Insider.
微软越来越将“技术的普及”作为其人工智能战略的核心理念。公司总裁布拉德·史密斯（Brad Smith）强调，赢得人工智能领域的竞争不仅取决于开发出最先进的技术模型，还取决于确保这些模型能够被广泛采用。微软最近发布了一份名为《全球人工智能普及报告》（Global AI Diffusion Report）的文件，进一步阐述了这一战略。这一理念不仅符合微软的商业利益，也与其Copilot人工智能产品的开发方向高度一致。
Microsoft has increasingly adopted "diffusion" as a central theme in its public AI messaging. President Brad Smith has argued that winning the AI race depends not only on building the most advanced models but also on ensuring their widespread adoption. The company recently released a "Global AI diffusion" report. This message also aligns with Microsoft's commercial interests, and its evolving strategy for its Copilot AI tools.
与那些主要通过销售前沿人工智能模型来盈利的AI实验室不同，微软的收入来源包括云服务、办公软件、开发工具以及其他商业应用程序。使用这些产品的人和公司越多，对微软来说就越有利。最近，微软将其Copilot产品进行了升级，将聊天功能、协作工具、编码功能以及自主运行的“Autopilot”人工智能代理功能整合到一个名为Copilot的“超级应用”中，该应用同时面向个人用户和商业用户。
Unlike AI labs whose businesses center primarily on selling frontier models, Microsoft generates revenue by selling cloud services, workplace software, developer tools, and other business applications. The more people and companies that adopt AI across those products, the better for Microsoft. Microsoft recently has shifted its Copilot toward combining chat, Cowork, coding, and autonomous "Autopilot" AI agent capabilities in a single flagship Copilot "super app" spanning both consumer and commercial users.
Andreou表示：“我们坚信这项技术能够真正提升人们的工作效率；这种技术的普及不仅对微软自身的发展至关重要，而且整个经济体系也能从中受益。”如果您有任何建议或线索，请通过电子邮件（astewart@businessinsider.com）或Signal（电话：+1-425-344-8242）与本报记者联系。请使用个人电子邮件地址，并确保通过非工作设备进行联系；以下是我们提供的安全信息共享指南。
"We definitely believe in this technology to be for the empowerment of people," Andreou said. "That diffusion is not just existential for us in many ways, but actually that is the way that the whole economy gets to benefit." Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at astewart@businessinsider.com or Signal at +1-425-344-8242. Use a personal email address and a nonwork device; here's our guide to sharing information securely.