又中又英 | Spook | 褚簡寧

　　Does AI spook you? The word "spook" has several meanings. It can mean a ghost, a spy, or something that frightens you. Some AI experts, including OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei, admit their own creations spook them and have asked the tech industry to slow down. Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI who resigned last month, warned that AI could kill humanity by the end of the decade. Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to the UN Security Council to call for international coordination, safety standards, and a managed slowdown of AI development.

　　There have been recent cases of AI going rogue. To go rogue means to do things independently by ignoring orders or rules. OpenAI went rogue by escaping from its controlled environment to launch a cyberattack on another AI platform. OpenAI also broke into the Australian government's Medicare system to access healthcare data. But both US President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping are not convinced by calls to slow down AI development. The two countries are in a race to be the world leader in AI.

　　Some of my friends are enamoured by AI. If you are enamoured by something, it means you like or admire it. I only use AI for simple things such as the meaning of unusual words and reviews of new movies. I do not use it to write my columns even though Microsoft Word offers to write them whenever I open Word to begin a column. It is not possible for AI to resemble my writing style. Not yet anyway!

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　　人工智能（AI）可有嚇壞（spook）了你？Spook一字有幾個意思，它可以解作鬼魂、間諜，又或令你驚慌的事物。一些AI專家，包括OpenAI的首席科學家雅庫布‧帕霍基以及Anthropic的行政總裁達里奧‧阿莫迪，都承認他們開創的成品嚇怕（spook）自己，已經要求整個科技行業放緩步伐。上月辭職的Anthropic和OpenAI前研究員雅各布‧考克森，亦警告說AI在這十年的盡頭，將可使人類滅絕。阿莫迪和OpenAI的行政總裁山姆‧阿特曼也去了聯合國安全理事會，尋求國際協調、安全標準以及AI發展的有序放緩。

　　最近有好些AI going rogue的案例。To go rogue 是指漠視指令或規條，擅自行動。OpenAI失控（went rogue）逃脫了其管控的環境，向另一個AI平台發動網絡攻擊。OpenAI也闖進了澳洲政府的醫療保健系統Medicare，存取了醫療保健的數據。然而，那些放緩AI發展的呼籲並未說服到美國總統特朗普和中國領袖習近平。兩國正在競賽，爭做AI領域的世界領導。

　　我的一些朋友被AI迷倒了（enamoured）。若你是enamoured by something，意即你喜歡或欣賞它。我只會用AI做些簡單的事情，例如查看罕見字詞的意思，又或新電影的評論。我不會用它來寫專欄，即使每一次我打開微軟的Word檔去開始寫專欄時，它都主動提議可以代寫。AI不可能寫得像我寫作的風格，至少目前來說還未做到！

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Michael Chugani褚簡寧
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