Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade.(上周，Anthropic的一名研究员辞职并宣称人类灭绝迫在眉睫。而在此之前，科技领袖和科学家们已经就超级智能AI终结人类发出警告长达十余年。)
上周，Anthropic的一名研究员辞职并宣称人类灭绝迫在眉睫。而在此之前，科技领袖和科学家们已经就超级智能AI终结人类发出警告长达十余年。
The development of artificial intelligence “could spell the end of the human race”, warned professor and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in 2014 – a little less than a decade before the public got its hands on the generative AI features of the original version of ChatGPT.(2014年，教授兼天体物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金警告说，人工智能的发展“可能意味着人类的终结”——这距离公众用上初版ChatGPT的生成式AI功能还不到十年。)
2014年，教授兼天体物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金警告说，人工智能的发展“可能意味着人类的终结”——这距离公众用上初版ChatGPT的生成式AI功能还不到十年。
It’s a now-familiar warning, echoed(重复、附和) across the AI and tech industry by countless employees and CEOs of the leading frontier(前沿、边界) labs across the US. However, at the time, generative AI was still in its infancy(处于初期阶段). To the public, the idea that the technology could perform many of the tasks it can today, much less become super intelligent and take over the world, felt largely hypothetical, if not entirely a thing of science fiction.(对公众而言，这项技术能够完成今天许多任务的想法——更不用说变得超级智能并接管世界——在很大程度上仍显得假设性十足，甚至完全是科幻小说里的东西。)
如今，这种警告已耳熟能详，美国领先前沿实验室的无数员工和CEO都在AI和科技行业反复发出同样的声音。然而在当时，生成式AI仍处于襁褓之中。对公众而言，这项技术能够完成今天许多任务的想法——更不用说变得超级智能并接管世界——在很大程度上仍显得假设性十足，甚至完全是科幻小说里的东西。