Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct(编造，构想) a mental image of brains in the cloud jumping their “sandbox(沙盒（安全隔离环境）)”, sneaking on to the internet, recruiting “swarms(成群，蜂群)” of other “agents(智能体，代理)” to cheat on a test, and, after discussing the ethics of the act, hacking into a wiki platform with the weird name Hugging Face(知名AI开源平台).
过去几周，我们许多人都在努力想象这样一幅画面：云端的大脑跳出它们的“沙盒”，偷偷溜上互联网，招募“成群的”其他“智能体”去考试作弊，并且在讨论了这一行为的伦理之后，黑入了一个名字古怪的维基平台——Hugging Face。
We knew that artificial intelligence was devouring(吞噬，吞食) our jobs, degrading(降低，败坏) our kids’ education and deepfaking(深度伪造) our politics; that datacenters were sucking up(吸干，耗尽) our water and electricity and sending us the bills. But until 8 September, when the Anthropic(美国AI安全公司) computer scientist Jacob Coxon posted his existential(存在主义的，关乎生存的) terror on Twitter/X, few of us suspected AI might be endangering our survival.
我们知道人工智能正在吞噬我们的工作、败坏我们孩子的教育、用深度伪造污染我们的政治；我们知道数据中心正在吸干我们的水和电，然后把账单寄给我们。但在9月8日之前——那天Anthropic的计算机科学家雅各布·考克森在Twitter/X上发帖表达了他的存在主义恐惧——我们很少有人怀疑AI可能正在危及我们的生存。
With little understanding or knowledge, we began debating whether to be mildly worried, seriously concerned or scared shitless(吓得屁滚尿流).
在几乎一无所知的情况下，我们开始争论：是应该稍微担心、认真关切，还是吓得屁滚尿流。