Lambert 表示,恐惧是最简单的故事,是人们无法移开视线的故事。
Nathan Lambert 将恐惧描述为 AI 讨论中一种吸引注意力的叙事。他指出,Jacob Coxon 的辞职遇到了乐于接受的受众,传播范围比预期更广。
支持这项说法
雅各布·考克斯无意间踏入了这个全新的火药桶,对即将发生的一切全然不知。
原始摘录
Jacob Coxon was the one who stumbled into this new powder keg, totally unaware of what was going to come.
上下文
随后,一些基本的人性因素开始发挥作用,其中最关键的一点是:恐惧具有销售力。恐惧是最简单的叙事,一种令人无法移开视线的故事。一件看似无足轻重的事件——又一名人工智能研究员以安全风险为由辞职——却落入了一个截然不同的舆论环境,并如野火般迅速蔓延。关于人工智能存在性风险、大规模灭绝以及人工智能发展轨迹的讨论,其传播范围之广,甚至超出最资深的人工智能评论界人士所能预料。
原始上下文
Then, some basic factors of human nature apply, with the most crucial being that fear sells. Fear is the simplest story, the one people cannot look away from. What looked like a fairly innocuous event – another AI researcher quitting citing safety risks – landed into a very different environment and it caught like wildfire. The discussion of existential risk, mass extinction, and the trajectory of AI has traveled further than even the most seasoned AI commentariat would ever predict.