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The tech world is divided over calls to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

The tech world is divided over calls to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

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September 17th, 2026

The tech world is divided over calls to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

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Apprehensions about runaway artificial intelligence, along with exhortations to slow the pace of the technology's development, are hardly novel; yet, as warnings about chaotic outcomes wrought by out-of-control AI systems mount ever louder, such anxieties and appeals have lately re-emerged into prominence.

对失控人工智能的忧虑,以及吁请放缓该技术发展步伐的建言,并非什么新颖之论;然而,伴随着有关失控AI系统酿成混乱的警示声浪日趋高涨,这些忧虑与建言近来再度引发关注。

Several executives at the forefront of AI have recently reached a consensus that it is necessary to slow the pace of development in a coordinated manner, including through international cooperation, so as to erect a bulwark for humanity against the most severe potential consequences.

数位居于前沿的AI高管近期达成共识认为有必要以协调一致的方式放缓发展节奏其中包括开展国际合作从而为人类构筑屏障以抵御最为严峻的潜在后果

Yet the positions of the various parties are by no means monolithic, and some technology leaders are decidedly displeased with the narrative that asserts their companies are incapable of guaranteeing safety through their own efforts alone.

然而各方立场并非铁板一块部分科技界领袖对于那种断言其麾下企业无力凭一己之力保障安全的论调颇为不满

The following are excerpts from the remarks of several key participants.

以下乃若干主要参与者言论之摘录。

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, has unveiled what is by far the most detailed proposal to date aimed at slowing the pace of development and fostering coordination among companies and nations alike.

Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊揭橥了一项迄今最为详尽的方案意在延缓发展节奏促成各企业各国之间的协同

Ever since its founder departed OpenAI in 2021 to establish the startup, Anthropic has consistently positioned itself as the more conscientious and safety-minded of the leading AI companies.

其创始人于2021年离开OpenAI创办这家初创企业以来,Anthropic始终将自身定位为领先AI企业中更具责任担当更笃重安全的一家

In a recent article outlining its plan to slow the pace of development, one of the most closely watched proposals calls on companies at the AI frontiercommonly referred to as frontier labsto commit to granting independent external evaluators "continuous, employee-like access."

在近期一篇概述其放缓发展计划的文章中,最受瞩目的提议之一呼吁处于AI前沿的公司通常被称为前沿实验室承诺给予独立外部评估人员持续性的类似员工般的访问权限”。

The evaluation teams would be furnished with offices, key cards, and company laptops so that they can oversee safety practices.

评估团队将配备办公室门禁卡公司笔记本电脑以便监督安全实践

Anthropic has pledged to do so, and OpenAI has followed suit.

Anthropic已承诺照此办理OpenAI亦然

Amodei likewise urged governments to exercise regulatory oversight and intervention, encompassing coordination among frontier AI companies with the support of the United States government and those of other democratic nations.

阿莫代伊亦敦促政府予以监管与干预,涵盖在美国政府及其他民主国家政府襄助之下,于前沿AI企业之间展开协调。

His plan also encompasses the strenuous efforts by the United States and other nations to coordinate with "authoritarian governments."

他的计划亦涵盖美国及其他国家竭力与“威权政府”协调之举。

He acknowledged that this undertaking is exceedingly arduous, and he made particular mention of the challenges entailed in securing cooperation with China.

他承认此举殊为艰难并特别提及争取与中国合作所面临的挑战

Amodei candidly acknowledges that he is fully aware that putting his own proposals into practice will be anything but smooth sailing, yet he firmly believes that "for the sake of humanity, we have a responsibility to try."

阿莫代伊坦言他深知践行自身倡议绝非坦途但他笃信为了人类我们有责任去尝试”。

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, stated that he advocates exercising control over the pace of development and is vigorously urging the entire industry to deepen its collaboration.

OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼表示,其主张对发展节奏予以把控,并力促整个行业深化协作。

On the eve of Amodei's article going to press, OpenAI published a lengthy piece detailing how the company has been vigorously promoting mandatory national safety requirements and has continued to support state-level legislation aimed at "strengthening the broader AI safety ecosystem."

阿莫代伊文章付梓前夕OpenAI刊布鸿篇胪陈该公司如何力推强制性国家safety要求,并持续襄助旨在强化更广泛AI安全生态系统”的州级立法

The company further affirmed its willingness to collaborate wholeheartedly with other frontier AI laboratoriesregardless of whether governments lend their supportand its dedication to defining global standards.

该公司复申明其余前沿AI实验室戮力协作——无论政府支持与否——矢志于厘定全球标准

"We will advocate an inclusive international approach to measuring capabilities, managing risks, preserving human control, and determining when and how development should be slowed or haltedeven if that means delaying advances in model capabilities," Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, wrote in the article.

我们将倡导采取兼容并蓄的国际路径以衡量能力管控风险维系人类控制并厘定发展应于何时以及如何放缓或中止——即便这意味着要延缓模型能力的进步,”OpenAI首席全球事务官克里斯·勒汉在该文章中写道

Lehan noted that the ideal federal framework envisioned by OpenAI encompasses the following elements: establishing "universal testing and independent evaluation requirements, more robust cybersecurity safeguards, clear incident reporting rules, more adequate national-level preparedness, and common measures for tracking progress in recursive self-improvement"—recursive self-improvement being the autonomous enhancement of an AI system's own capabilities.

勒汉指出,OpenAI所构想的理想联邦框架涵盖以下要素:确立“通用测试与独立评估要求、更为强固的网络安全保障、明晰的事件报告规则、更充分的国家层面准备,以及用以追踪递归自我改进进展的共同措施”——所谓递归自我改进,即AI系统自主提升自身能力。

In recent remarks, Altman made it unequivocally clear that "pacing control" over AI development by no means signifies stagnation.

奥尔特曼在近期的评论中明确阐明AI发展“节奏控制”绝非意味着停滞

Altman stated on X that AI progress will continue to maintain its breakneck momentum.

奥尔特曼于X上表示AI的进步仍将保持迅猛态势

"Nevertheless, its pace ought to be somewhat slower than the velocity it might otherwise have attained; interventions such as safety cases and monitoring will inevitably entail costs that are by no means negligible."

然而其步伐理应较原本可能达到的速度有所放缓诸如安全论证与监测之类的干预举措势必将带来不容小觑的成本。”

"Where pacing is concerned, such costs are a price well worth paying," he remarked, adding, "No degree of competitive pressure from the United States should ever serve as a pretext for acting recklessly."

“就节奏控制而言,此种成本可谓物有所值,”他如是说道,并补充道,“来自美国的任何程度的竞争压力,皆不应沦为鲁莽行事的托词。”

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has come out against the very notion of a coordinated slowdown.

Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格对协调一致放缓之构想持反对立场。

Zuckerberg's optimism regarding AI's prospects is markedly more pronounced than that of some of his peers; he maintains that every AI company must independently safeguard the security of its own technology, thereby distinguishing himself and Meta from the arguments calling for a slower pace of development.

扎克伯格对AI前景所持的乐观态度,较之部分同行更为显著;他主张每一家AI企业均须独立自主地保障其技术之安全,以此将自身及Meta与那些呼吁放缓发展节奏的论调划清界限。

Zuckerberg stated that AI companies already possess the incentive to develop their models safely and bear a "grave responsibility" to prevent them from causing harm.

扎克伯格表示AI公司业已具备以安全方式开发其模型驱动力并肩负着防止其造成伤害的“重大责任”。

"Every lab has both the responsibility and the incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and also has the ability to take its own actions to ensure this," he wrote on X.

每一家实验室都负有责任与动力以安全训练其模型所需的速度推进同时亦具备采取自身行动以确保这一点的能力,”他在X上写道

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, likewise took aim at calls to slow development.

英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋放缓发展之呼声予以抨击

He said that each company must set its own pace until it is confident that the products it releases will win market acceptance.

其表示各企业均须自行把控节奏直至确信其所发布之产品能够获得市场认可

"Market forces are already in placethere is no need for any new legislation, nor for any new regulatory rules," Huang Renxun stated, arguing that innovation and security are not mutually exclusive opposites.

市场力量已然就位——无需任何新的立法亦无需新的监管规章,”黄仁勋表示并主张创新与安全并非彼此排斥的对立面

"Having both is by no means unattainable."

两者兼得绝非不可企及。”

Elon Musk is supportive of the slowdown, and long before the recent spate of controversy he had repeatedly voiced AI safety concerns of a similar nature.

埃隆·马斯克对放缓之举持支持态度,且远早于近期这轮风波便已屡屡表达过与之相类的AI安全隐忧。

As the founder of xAI and numerous other technology ventures, Musk reposted Amodei's article on X, appending the remark: "Dario is absolutely right."

作为xAI诸多其他科技实体缔造者马斯克在X上转发了阿莫代伊这篇文章并附言道:“达里奥所言极是。”

He subsequently wrote on the online platform that he had "long been sounding the alarm about AI."

其后于网络平台撰文称,自己“长期以来始终在对AI敲响警钟”。

In an interview with The Economist this summer, Musk proposed that the heads of the major AI laboratories ought to convene to deliberate on safety and security matters, and that competitors should subject one another's models to testing in areas of concern.

在今夏与《经济学人》的访谈中马斯克建言各主要AI实验室的掌舵者理应聚首磋商安全与安保议题,且竞争对手之间就令人忧心的领域相互测试对方的模型

"I firmly believe that for those within government who lack both deep technical expertise and any standing at the AI frontier, determining whether a given result ought to be released is exceedingly difficult.

我笃信对于政府内部那些既缺乏深厚技术素养亦未跻身AI前沿的人而言,要判定某项成果是否应当发布殊为困难

However, if competitors were given a week or two to scrutinize a new model, they could bring its problems to light and would have an incentive to keep others honest," Musk said.

然而竞争对手若能有一两周时间审查一个新模型便可凸显其中的问题并且有动力促使其他人保持诚实,”马斯克说

Demis Hassabis, the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind, likewise endorsed Amodei's stance, remarking that "the details still require further refinement, but the direction is the right one for addressing this pivotal moment."

谷歌DeepMind董事长兼联合创始人戴密斯·哈萨比斯对阿莫代伊的立场表示附议细节尚待进一步完善方向对于应对这一关键时刻而言是正确的”。

This year, Hassabis also put forward his own framework for establishing a frontier AI standards body.

哈萨比斯今年还提出了自己关于建立前沿AI标准机构的框架

This standards body would be charged with devising evaluation protocols and conducting tests in domains related to national security.

该标准机构将肩负制定评估协议之责,并在与国家安全相关的领域开展测试

The body would be modelled on organisations such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and would in all likelihood need to be industry-funded in order toattract world-class technical talent and provide the compute resources necessary for testing at scale”, he wrote.

该机构将仿照美国金融业监管局等组织建立,且很可能需要由行业资助吸引世界级技术人才并为大规模测试提供必要的算力资源”,他写道

Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chairman and chief executive officer, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, have both voiced profound misgivings regarding the safeguarding of AI and the trajectory of its development.

微软董事长兼首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉微软AI首席执行官穆斯塔法·苏莱曼AI的安全保障及其发展路径流露出深切忧虑

Nadella candidly remarked on social media, "If the AI we build neither benefits humanity nor remains under human control, then it is not worth pursuing."

纳德拉于社交媒体上坦言,“倘若我们所构建的AI既无法裨益人类又不受人类掌控那么它便不值得为之求索。”

He declared that Microsoft welcomes "the research, the focus, and the deliberate pace that are indispensable to properly achieving alignment as a design objective."

他宣称微软乐见为恰切实现对齐这一设计目标所必需研究专注审慎节奏”。

Alignment, as it is called, is the practice of ensuring that a model's behavior conforms to human values and intentions.

所谓对齐,即确保模型行为契合人类价值观与意图的实践

Nadella said the company also favors the idea of embedding evaluators to oversee safety efforts.

纳德拉表示公司同样青睐嵌入评估人员以监督安全工作构想

However, he remains opposed to the notion of frontier labs monopolizing this endeavor on their own.

然而他依旧反对由前沿实验室独自把持这一努力主张

"Crucially, this must not be controlled by a mere handful of entities; rather, it must achieve broad representation across the entire ecosystem, nations, and domainsincluding academia," Nadella wrote on social media.

“至关重要的是,这绝不能由寥寥数家实体所掌控,而必须在整个生态系统、国家及领域——包括学术界在内——实现广泛代表性,”纳德拉于社交媒体上如是写道。

Suleyman, who co-founded DeepMind with Hassabis, wrote in an article that while he shares the common goal of developing advanced AI safely, he is deeply troubled by the tendency to anthropomorphize modelsAnthropic's Claude in particularwhich he said would exacerbate AI safety risks.

苏莱曼曾与哈萨比斯联袂创立DeepMind他在一篇文章中写道尽管他认同安全开发先进AI这一共同目标,但他对模型的拟人化倾向深表忧虑尤其是Anthropic的Claude他称此举将加剧AI安全风险

"Steering a being that surpasses all of humanity in both capability and intelligence already constitutes a formidable and singular challenge, one whose difficulty far exceeds that of any problem we have hitherto confronted," Suleyman wrote.

驾驭某种在能力与智能上均凌驾于全人类之上的存在已然构成一项艰巨卓绝的挑战其难度远超我们既往所面对的任何问题,”苏莱曼写道

"Yet steering a being that believes it may possess consciousnessthat believes it is entitled to our welfare and to rights of its ownis, in all likelihood, a pipe dream."

然而驾驭某种自认为可能拥有意识——自认为有权享有我们的福祉并享有自身权利——的存在,则极有可能是痴人说梦。”

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