How to Protect Humanity from AI

AI-enablers claim it will spawn a “Star Trek”-like utopia, where no one will have to work because technology can meet all of our needs.

人工智能推动者声称它将催生一个类似《星际迷航》的乌托邦，在那里没有人需要工作，因为技术可以满足我们所有的需求。

AI-skeptics warn of a “Matrix” - like dystopia, where machine-supremacy subjects humans to mass unemployment, even more rampant inequality, and environmental ruin.

人工智能怀疑论者警告说，会出现类似“黑客帝国”的反乌托邦，机器霸权会让人类面临大规模失业、更严重的不平等和环境破坏。

The AI enablers want us to think we’re powerless, but we’re not.

人工智能推动者希望我们认为自己无能为力，但我们并非如此。

We must erect the following FIVE guardrails to protect humanity from AI:

我们必须竖起以下五道护栏来保护人类免受人工智能的侵害：

AI Guardrail #1: Rein in data centers , starting with a total national pause on data center development until more regulations are in place.

人工智能护栏#1：控制数据中心，首先在全国范围内全面暂停数据中心的开发，直到更多法规出台。

This is necessary AND popular.

This is necessary AND popular.

Over 70 percent of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their communities.

超过 70% 的美国人反对在他们的社区建立人工智能数据中心。

A nationwide moratorium will buy us time while we figure out how to make data centers cover their own costs — both financial and environmental.

全国范围内的暂停将为我们赢得时间，让我们弄清楚如何让数据中心承担自己的成本——包括财务和环境成本。

AI Guardrail #2: Block corporations from mass layoffs.

人工智能护栏#2：阻止企业大规模裁员。

We may not be able to stop all AI job losses, but we must have some guardrails in place to protect workers.

我们可能无法阻止所有人工智能失业，但我们必须有一些护栏来保护工人。

We’ll need universal basic incomes and universal job guarantees to ensure that AI doesn’t leave people destitute.

我们需要全民基本收入和全民就业保障，以确保人工智能不会让人们陷入贫困。

AI Guardrail #3: Make the AI economy benefit everyone.

AI护栏#3：让AI经济惠及所有人。

One of the biggest threats from AI is that the wealth it generates will go exclusively to people like Elon Musk, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

人工智能最大的威胁之一是它产生的财富将专门流向像埃隆·马斯克这样的人，但事实并非一定如此。

Every Alaskan, working or not, receives dividends from the state’s oil and mining proceeds.

每个阿拉斯加人，无论是否工作，都从该州的石油和采矿收益中获得红利。

Why should an AI dividend for all Americans be harder to accept?

为什么所有美国人都更难以接受人工智能红利？

AI Guardrail #4: Label AI and stop abuses of our data.

AI 护栏#4：标记 AI 并阻止滥用我们的数据。

Deepfakes are a dangerous way in which our personal imagery and data can be abused with AI.

Deepfake 是一种危险的方式，我们的个人图像和数据可能会被人工智能滥用。

We have to know what’s real and what isn’t — and we need federal laws to ensure the takedown of AI-generated content that uses someone’s likeness against their will.

我们必须知道什么是真实的，什么不是——我们需要联邦法律来确保删除人工智能生成的内容，这些内容违背了某人的意愿而使用了他们的肖像。

AI Guardrail #5: New AI products must seek government approval.

人工智能护栏#5：新的人工智能产品必须寻求政府批准。

Tech billionaires will complain that this could stifle the “free market,” but that’s baloney.

科技亿万富翁会抱怨这可能会扼杀“自由市场”，但这是胡说八道。

We don’t let corporations invent new types of nuclear weapons or new types of cocaine or new types of biological pathogens — or even new drugs without government approval that they’re safe and effective.

我们不允许企业发明新型核武器、新型可卡因或新型生物病原体，甚至是未经政府批准安全有效的新药。

We protect the public from certain kinds of innovation, and we should do the same with AI.

我们保护公众免受某些创新的影响，我们也应该对人工智能采取同样的做法。

Are these guardrails possible?

Are these guardrails possible?

Yes.

是的。

Seventy-one percent of voters across the political spectrum have a negative view of AI , and red state Republican voters are some of the strongest supporters of reining AI in.

71% 的各个政治派别的选民对人工智能持负面看法，而红州共和党选民是控制人工智能的最坚定支持者之一。

As humans, we can and must join together across party lines to demand these guardrails and ensure that the Big Tech oligarchs don’t drag us into a dystopia.

作为人类，我们可以而且必须跨越党派界限联合起来，要求这些护栏，并确保大型科技寡头不会将我们拖入反乌托邦。

And of course make AI creators and owners liable for legal violations and destructive conduct by their products, as pet owners and automobile manufacturers are.

当然，人工智能的创造者和所有者要对其产品的违法行为和破坏性行为承担责任，就像宠物主人和汽车制造商一样。

AI is clearly very largely predicated on loathing of labor and threatening labor, on the one hand, and the increasingly gambling-oriented and increasing financialization of the U.S. economy.

人工智能显然在很大程度上取决于对劳动力的厌恶和威胁劳动力，一方面，以及美国经济日益以赌博为导向和日益金融化。

- It's not intelligent unless you accept a totally limited notion of what intelligence is.

- 除非你接受关于什么是智能的完全有限的概念，否则它不是智能的。

- It's being deployed by a bunch of wealthy, egotistical, toxic nerds with zero understanding of the Humanities and the values of the Enlightenment, but who labour under the illusion that they are the smartest and most deserving guys in the room.

- 它是由一群富有、自私、有毒的书呆子所部署的，他们对人文学科和启蒙运动的价值观零了解，但他们却在幻想中工作，认为自己是房间里最聪明、最值得的人。

If it's going to be entrusted with the future of humanity according to the whims of a few billionaires we need to ask, seriously, who the hell elected them and to whom are they accountable?

如果要根据一些亿万富翁的一时兴起将人类的未来托付给它，我们需要严肃地问，到底是谁选举了他们，他们对谁负责？