这场仅限受邀者参加的会议在加利福尼亚州举行，汇聚了众多人工智能领域的顶尖人士——包括业界领军人物、外国官员以及美国国会议员。随着全球对人工智能技术的担忧日益加深，此次会议堪称当前全球人工智能安全讨论的一个缩影。
An invite-only conference in California hosted a rare convergence of AI influence — from industry luminaries to foreign officials and Congress members — as global concerns about the technology grow. BERKELEY, California — If the world was going to hash out the biggest policy dilemmas surrounding AI, a converted inn in Berkeley, California seemed as fitting a place as any.
据POLITICO报道，上周末在加州伯克利举行的“The Curve”会议堪称人工智能安全领域的顶级盛会。会上，弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员唐·贝耶向著名人工智能先驱约书亚·本吉奥询问了关于开源模型的相关问题；与会者在洗手间排队时还热议着加州州长加文·纽森是否会为人工智能议题召开特别立法会议——不过大家普遍认为这种可能性微乎其微。
Decoded by POLITICO got an inside look at The Curve, the invite-only conference last weekend that hosted a rare convergence of AI influence and offered a microcosm of the state of current global safety talks. It’s the kind of gathering where Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer asks famed AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio about open-weight models, while attendees muse in the bathroom line on the odds of California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling a special session for AI. (Hint: they are low.)
此外，OpenAI联合创始人沃伊切赫·扎伦巴、Anthropic联合创始人杰克·克拉克以及谷歌DeepMind的政策主管欧文·拉特等业界大咖，也与来自美国各州政府、国会、外国政要、政治团体、民间组织、主要捐赠方及联邦机构的代表们齐聚一堂。
Other industry luminaries including OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and Google DeepMind’s head of policy Owen Larter roamed the summer-camp-like campus with representatives of both red and blue state governments, Congress, foreign leaders, political groups, civil society, major donors and federal agencies.
然而，尽管汇聚了如此众多的顶尖专家，由于国会正处于休会期，且中期选举日益临近可能导致人工智能相关政策立场更加分化，这场为期三天的会议结束后，人工智能监管的未来走向依然扑朔迷离。如今，OpenAI遭遇的Hugging Face数据泄露事件及其他相关安全事件终于引起了公众与政策制定者的广泛关注，这也凸显出人工智能安全倡导者们未来所面临的重重挑战。
Yet for all the expertise assembled, the three-day retreat broke up with the regulatory path forward still decidedly murky, between Congress being on recess and midterm elections approaching that could make the politics around AI even more factional. It highlights the challenges ahead for AI safety advocates now that OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack and other incidents have finally given them the broader public and policymakers’ attention.