戴维·罗宾逑指出，OpenAI一方面发表声明，另一方面却采取相反行动。罗宾逑曾是OpenAI安全系统团队的领导人之一，上周离职后首次接受《纽约时报》《埃兹拉·克莱因脱口秀》的专访时表示，尽管多次警告新模型的能力，并表示希望减缓AI发展速度，但OpenAI在后台仍在全速推进。
David Robinson says OpenAI was saying one thing while doing another. Robinson, formerly a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, sat down with Ezra Klein for The New York Times' "The Ezra Klein Show" for his first interview since quitting the AI company last week. Robinson told Klein that, despite repeated warnings about the capabilities of new models and expressing interest in slowing down AI development, OpenAI was moving as fast as ever behind the scenes.
罗宾逑告诉克莱因：“对我来说，最根本的认知失调在于，我们一直在发布这些警告，但归根结底，我们仍然在训练和部署那些我们正在警告的危险模型。”
"Part of what was the fundamental cognitive dissonance for me was we keep publishing these warnings, but ultimately, we're still training and deploying these dangerous models that we're warning about," Robinson said.
7月份，数百名OpenAI员工签署了一封题为《抑制前沿技术》的公开信，敦促政府出台法规以减缓AI发展速度。随后在9月份，OpenAI首席执行官山姆·奥特曼表示他赞同安索罗比首席执行官达里奥·阿莫迪之前发表的文章，该文章主张AI公司应自行协调减速。奥特曼当时在X平台上说：“我们需要抑制前沿技术。这已经成为我们最近几周讨论的主要话题。”
In July, hundreds of OpenAI employees signed an open letter titled "Pacing the Frontier," which urged the government to impose regulations that would slow down AI development. Then, in September, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he agreed with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who had earlier published an essay advocating that AI companies coordinate a slowdown among themselves. "We need to pace the frontier," Altman said at the time on X. "This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks."
然而，罗宾逑告诉克莱因，在OpenAI内部，仍然存在着紧张活跃的氛围，人们似乎“精疲力尽”。
Within OpenAI's office, though, Robinson told Klein that there was continued "frenetic" activity and that people were "running on fumes."
他形容OpenAI“几乎像一场芭蕾舞或某种协调舞蹈，因为所有这些不同的职能部门都在汇聚在一起”，并表示：“这里充满了激素。”
"It feels almost like a ballet or a kind of dance because all these different functions are kind of all streaming together," he said of OpenAI. "There's a lot of adrenaline."
OpenAI的研究人员对允许AI自我构建的危险——即递归自我改进（RSI）——表达了相当坦率的担忧。
Researchers at OpenAI have been rather frank about the dangers of letting AI build itself, a process called recursive self-improvement, or RSI.
OpenAI首席科学家雅库布·帕霍克西在9月份发表的一篇关于RSI的博客文章中表示：“这个时候需要极其谨慎的态度。”OpenAI对本文的评论请求尚未回复。
"This is a time that calls for extreme caution," Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's chief scientist, said in a blog post about RSI in September. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this article.
一位OpenAI发言人此前在回应罗宾逊在《大西洋月刊》上发表的文章时表示，该公司正在采取措施提高其人工智能模型的安全性。发言人表示：“随着我们的模型变得更加强大，我们继续加强我们的安全和安全实践，以应对我们今天所看到的风险，同时建立安全案例以预测未来进步可能带来的风险。我们确保我们的模型不会变得比我们能够安全管理和保护的更强大，当我们需要减速时，我们会暂停训练或推迟发布模型。”
An OpenAI spokesperson previously said, in response to an essay Robinson wrote in The Atlantic, that the company is taking steps to improve security for its AI models. "As our models become more capable, we continue to strengthen our safety and security practices to address the risks we see today while building safety cases to anticipate the risks of future advances," the spokesperson said. "We're making sure our models don't become more capable than we can safely manage and secure, and we pause training or hold back models when we need to slow down."