2017年，OpenAI联合创始人格雷格·布罗克曼（Greg Brockman）和伊利亚·苏茨克维（Ilya Sutskever）曾提议将该公司未来通用人工智能（AGI）的所有权拍卖给包括美国、中国和俄罗斯在内的各国政府。凯文·罗斯（Kevin Roose）在《大西洋月刊》周二刊发其新书节选时报道了这一计划。达里奥·阿莫代伊（Dario Amodei）对此表示反对。罗斯写道，这是导致他离职并创立Anthropic的数起争端之一。
In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it. It was one of several disputes that led him to leave and found Anthropic, Roose writes.
这篇发表在《大西洋月刊》上的节选摘自罗斯即将出版的新书《AGI编年史》（The AGI Chronicles）。有五位熟悉该计划的人士向他描述了此事。“国家计划”罗斯写道，这个想法是在埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）逐渐退出OpenAI且实验室需要新资金时产生的。它最初是一个旨在管理AGI风险的国际联盟提案。到那年冬天布罗克曼和苏茨克维向员工展示时，它已经演变成一个在内部被称为“国家计划”的筹资策略。
The excerpt, published in The Atlantic, comes from Roose’s forthcoming book, The AGI Chronicles. Five people familiar with the plan described it to him. The ‘countries plan’The idea came as Elon Musk was pulling away from OpenAI and the lab needed new funding, Roose writes. It began as a proposal for an international coalition to manage the risks of AGI. By the time Brockman and Sutskever presented it to staff that winter, it had become a fundraising strategy known internally as the “countries plan”.
两位熟悉他们想法的人士表示，这两人预计政府会从构建AGI的公司手中将其强行收回。因此他们质问，既然现在需要资金，OpenAI为什么不现在就将其售出。
Two people familiar with their thinking said the pair expected governments to seize AGI from the companies that built it. So they asked why OpenAI should not sell it now, when it needed the money.
“听起来就像是一群科技人员在推销一个疯狂的初创项目，他们有一个古怪的计划，而在计划的最后则是：我们会让政府为此买单，”一位听取了该展示的人士对罗斯说。
“It sounded like tech people pitching an insane start-up, where they have this wacky plan and then at the end of the plan, it’s like, We’ll make the government pay for it,” one person who heard the presentation told Roose.
OpenAI的一位发言人对罗斯表示，OpenAI“曾短暂考虑过是否将OpenAI转变为一个国际合作项目”，但“从未考虑过将AGI出售给中国或俄罗斯”。在获得微软的资金支持后，OpenAI放弃了这一计划。
OpenAI “briefly considered whether to turn OpenAI into an international cooperative endeavor” but “did not consider selling AGI to China or Russia,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Roose. OpenAI dropped the plan after it found funding from Microsoft.
根据该节选，2017年12月，阿莫代伊向布罗克曼、苏茨克维和其他高管发送了一封电子邮件表示反对。
In December 2017, Amodei emailed Brockman, Sutskever and other executives to object, according to the excerpt.
阿莫代伊写道：“在我看来，这个计划不仅不会减少反而会加剧军备竞赛，可能会助长侵犯人权的暴行……并且会破坏OpenAI的道德合法性。”
“In my opinion this plan would exacerbate rather than reduce arms races, would potentially enable human rights atrocities… and would undermine OpenAI’s moral legitimacy,” Amodei wrote.
据罗斯（Roose）报道，坎耶·韦斯特（Kanye West）与 GPT-3 的测试版开发者阿莫迪（Amodei）共同整理了一份清单，列出了那些阿莫迪误导他们的时刻。其中一则事件与 GPT-3 的授权客户名单有关；另一则事件则涉及微软（Microsoft）那笔价值 10 亿美元的交易中的安全条款。
Kanye West and the GPT-3 beta Amodei kept a list of times he felt Altman had misled him, Roose writes. One concerned a list of approved GPT-3 customers. Another concerned safety terms in the $1bn Microsoft deal.
两人告诉罗斯，2020 年时阿莫迪曾允许坎耶·韦斯特使用 GPT-3 的测试版功能，但随后 OpenAI 的政策主管杰克·克拉克（Jack Clark）阻止了这一行为。
In 2020, Altman offered Kanye West access to the private GPT-3 beta, two people told Roose. Jack Clark, then OpenAI’s policy director, stopped it.
同年，阿莫迪和他的六位同事离开了 OpenAI，共同创立了 Anthropic 公司。他们将这次离职称为“一次‘分手’”。根据相关资料，这家新公司可以在离职后的几周内继续雇佣 OpenAI 的员工，双方也同意不在公开场合互相诋毁对方。最初，这家公司计划将自身命名为“Sparrow Systems”。
That year, Amodei and six colleagues left to start Anthropic. They called the exit terms “the divorce”. The group could hire OpenAI staff for several weeks, and both sides agreed not to disparage each other in public. The company first planned to call itself Sparrow Systems, according to the excerpt.
罗斯还提到，据多位了解他们情况的人士透露，目前仍存在矛盾的达里奥·阿莫迪（Dario Amodei）和丹妮拉·阿莫迪（Daniela Amodei）依然对阿尔特曼（Altman）和布罗克曼（Brockman）怀有不满。达里奥曾在内部 Slack 消息中称阿尔特曼和 OpenAI 为“邪恶的势力”；而 OpenAI 的一些员工则将阿莫迪夫妇描述为“渴望权力、却总在装作道德高尚的人”。
Still feuding Dario and Daniela Amodei “still despise” Altman and Brockman, according to several people who know them, Roose writes. Dario has called Altman and OpenAI “evil” in internal Slack messages. Some people at OpenAI describe the Amodeis as “power-hungry virtue-signalers”, the excerpt says.
周一，TNW 报道称阿尔特曼和阿莫迪都将缺席澳大利亚的调查。Anthropic 公司正在准备上市，其招股说明书显示该公司在 2025 年亏损了 420 亿美元。周三，布罗克曼（Brockman）向一个支持人工智能发展的政治行动委员会（AI super PAC）捐赠了 2500 万美元。
On Monday, TNW reported that Altman and Amodei will both skip an Australian inquiry. Anthropic is preparing to list, and its prospectus shows it lost $42bn in 2025. On Wednesday, Brockman dropped a $25m pledge to an AI super PAC.