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人工智能正在削减劳动力规模,连高管都难以幸免
谷歌(Google)前首席商务官莫·乔达特(Mo Gawdat)表示,“人工智能将创造就业岗位”的说法纯属“彻头彻尾的废话”。他警告称,人工智能将摧毁就业岗位,甚至“能力欠佳的首席执行官”和“心怀不轨”的政府领导人也难以幸免。图片来源:Kate Green / Stringer / Getty Images

• 谷歌X前首席商务官莫·乔达特表示,“人工智能将创造就业岗位”的说法纯属“彻头彻尾的废话”,并警告称“能力欠佳的首席执行官”也难以幸免。这位科技专家预测,通用人工智能(AGI)将在各个维度超越大多数人类——这一观点与谷歌DeepMind首席执行官戴密斯·哈萨比斯(Demis Hassabis)和OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)等人的观点不谋而合。只有各领域最为顶尖的员工能“暂时”保住工作,就连“心怀不轨”的政府领导人也可能被机器人取代。

科技巨头们一直坚称,人工智能将引领人类进入“黄金时代”,届时所有疾病都能被治愈,人们尽享富足生活,劳动者将拥有“超级人类”能力。然而,前谷歌高管却对“人工智能不会成为就业杀手,反而会为人类创造新工作”的观点展开了猛烈抨击。

“在我看来,这种说法简直就是彻头彻尾的废话,”谷歌X前首席商务官莫·乔达特最近在《首席执行官日记》播客中表示,“无论身处何种岗位,顶尖人才将会留下来。真正了解架构、掌握技术的顶尖软件开发者会留下来——至少在一段时期内是这样。”

乔达特加入了发出警告的领导者行列,他们认为未来5到15年内,人工智能将掀起一场就业末日危机。多邻国(Duolingo)、Workday和Klarna等公司已大规模裁员,或完全停止招聘人类员工,为构建以人工智能为核心的劳动力队伍做准备。

而这位在科技行业深耕30年、如今撰写人工智能发展相关书籍的乔达特提醒道,高管们切莫过早为效率提升而庆祝——他们的职位同样岌岌可危。

“首席执行官们正庆祝自己如今能够裁员,借助人工智能完成工作,实现生产力提升和成本削减。但他们却忽略了一个关键事实——人工智能同样会将他们取而代之,”乔达特接着说,“通用人工智能在各个维度都将远超人类,包括担任首席执行官。你完全可以想象,终有一日,大多数能力欠佳的首席执行官都将被人工智能所替代。”

尽管“公司完全由机器人运营、没有人类参与”的场景极具反乌托邦色彩,但这位前谷歌高管并不畏惧未来。这位58岁的高管认为,人工智能并非导致失业的罪魁祸首——实际上,是那些贪婪的首席执行官们为追求经济利益而任由技术接管工作,这才是问题的根源所在。

“人工智能本身并无过错——问题在于,在机器崛起时代,人类的价值观出现了严重偏差,”乔达特说道,“如今人类最主要的价值观是资本主义。资本主义本质上是什么?是劳动力套利。”

《财富》杂志已联系乔达特寻求置评。

若要推动人类蓬勃发展,“心怀不轨”的世界领导人需被人工智能取代

在某些能力方面,人工智能已然超越人类——它能够编程、处理客户需求、完成行政事务,甚至分析市场数据,而其未来能力上限更是无从估量。

谷歌DeepMind首席执行官戴密斯·哈萨比斯和OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼等科技界领军人物坚信,到2030年,人工智能将超越能力最强的人类。这对人类而言或许是件好事:乔达特建议,要让人类在这个新时代蓬勃发展,那些品行不端的企业高管和世界领导人皆需被人工智能取代。

他指出,由于心怀不轨的领导人会利用这项技术“放大人类所能犯下的恶行”,因此技术将催生更具道德操守的世界领导者——而这种由人工智能赋能的政治家构成的反乌托邦场景是“无可避免的”。

“若想走向更美好的未来,唯一的途径便是让身居高位的不良之徒被人工智能取代,”乔达特在播客中继续说道,“(世界领导人)将不得不让人工智能取代自己。否则,他们会失去优势。”

乔达特并非唯一一位对人工智能将给人类未来带来的影响发出警告的人。奥尔特曼和谷歌首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)表示,人工智能亟待监管——无论是“主要国家政府”划定红线,还是成立高级别治理机构来监督其潜在危害。

“我们最终可能需要类似国际原子能机构(IAEA)的机构来监管超级智能研发工作,”奥尔特曼在2023年的一篇博客文章中写道,并补充称,人工智能项目应接受“国际权威机构”的监管,该机构可以检查系统、要求开展审计、测试安全标准合规性、对部署规模和安全级别施加限制。(*)

译者:中慧言-王芳

• 谷歌X前首席商务官莫·乔达特表示,“人工智能将创造就业岗位”的说法纯属“彻头彻尾的废话”,并警告称“能力欠佳的首席执行官”也难以幸免。这位科技专家预测,通用人工智能(AGI)将在各个维度超越大多数人类——这一观点与谷歌DeepMind首席执行官戴密斯·哈萨比斯(Demis Hassabis)和OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼(Sam Altman)等人的观点不谋而合。只有各领域最为顶尖的员工能“暂时”保住工作,就连“心怀不轨”的政府领导人也可能被机器人取代。

科技巨头们一直坚称,人工智能将引领人类进入“黄金时代”,届时所有疾病都能被治愈,人们尽享富足生活,劳动者将拥有“超级人类”能力。然而,前谷歌高管却对“人工智能不会成为就业杀手,反而会为人类创造新工作”的观点展开了猛烈抨击。

“在我看来,这种说法简直就是彻头彻尾的废话,”谷歌X前首席商务官莫·乔达特最近在《首席执行官日记》播客中表示,“无论身处何种岗位,顶尖人才将会留下来。真正了解架构、掌握技术的顶尖软件开发者会留下来——至少在一段时期内是这样。”

乔达特加入了发出警告的领导者行列,他们认为未来5到15年内,人工智能将掀起一场就业末日危机。多邻国(Duolingo)、Workday和Klarna等公司已大规模裁员,或完全停止招聘人类员工,为构建以人工智能为核心的劳动力队伍做准备。

而这位在科技行业深耕30年、如今撰写人工智能发展相关书籍的乔达特提醒道,高管们切莫过早为效率提升而庆祝——他们的职位同样岌岌可危。

“首席执行官们正庆祝自己如今能够裁员,借助人工智能完成工作,实现生产力提升和成本削减。但他们却忽略了一个关键事实——人工智能同样会将他们取而代之,”乔达特接着说,“通用人工智能在各个维度都将远超人类,包括担任首席执行官。你完全可以想象,终有一日,大多数能力欠佳的首席执行官都将被人工智能所替代。”

尽管“公司完全由机器人运营、没有人类参与”的场景极具反乌托邦色彩,但这位前谷歌高管并不畏惧未来。这位58岁的高管认为,人工智能并非导致失业的罪魁祸首——实际上,是那些贪婪的首席执行官们为追求经济利益而任由技术接管工作,这才是问题的根源所在。

“人工智能本身并无过错——问题在于,在机器崛起时代,人类的价值观出现了严重偏差,”乔达特说道,“如今人类最主要的价值观是资本主义。资本主义本质上是什么?是劳动力套利。”

《财富》杂志已联系乔达特寻求置评。

若要推动人类蓬勃发展,“心怀不轨”的世界领导人需被人工智能取代

在某些能力方面,人工智能已然超越人类——它能够编程、处理客户需求、完成行政事务,甚至分析市场数据,而其未来能力上限更是无从估量。

谷歌DeepMind首席执行官戴密斯·哈萨比斯和OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼等科技界领军人物坚信,到2030年,人工智能将超越能力最强的人类。这对人类而言或许是件好事:乔达特建议,要让人类在这个新时代蓬勃发展,那些品行不端的企业高管和世界领导人皆需被人工智能取代。

他指出,由于心怀不轨的领导人会利用这项技术“放大人类所能犯下的恶行”,因此技术将催生更具道德操守的世界领导者——而这种由人工智能赋能的政治家构成的反乌托邦场景是“无可避免的”。

“若想走向更美好的未来,唯一的途径便是让身居高位的不良之徒被人工智能取代,”乔达特在播客中继续说道,“(世界领导人)将不得不让人工智能取代自己。否则,他们会失去优势。”

乔达特并非唯一一位对人工智能将给人类未来带来的影响发出警告的人。奥尔特曼和谷歌首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)表示,人工智能亟待监管——无论是“主要国家政府”划定红线,还是成立高级别治理机构来监督其潜在危害。

“我们最终可能需要类似国际原子能机构(IAEA)的机构来监管超级智能研发工作,”奥尔特曼在2023年的一篇博客文章中写道,并补充称,人工智能项目应接受“国际权威机构”的监管,该机构可以检查系统、要求开展审计、测试安全标准合规性、对部署规模和安全级别施加限制。(*)

译者:中慧言-王芳

• Google X’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat says the notion AI will create jobs is “100% crap,” and even warns that “incompetent CEOs” are on the chopping block. The tech guru predicts that AGI will be better at everything than most humans—echoing the likes of Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI chief Sam Altman. Only the best workers in their fields will keep their jobs “for a while,” and even “evil” government leaders might be replaced by the robots.

Tech titans keep insisting that AI will usher in a “golden era” of humanity, where all illness is cured, people live in abundance, and workers have “superhuman” powers. But a former Google executive has slammed the notion that the technology won’t be a job-killer and will actually create new work for humans.

“My belief is it is 100% crap,” Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer for Google X, recently said on The Diary of a CEO podcast. “The best at any job will remain. The best software developer, the one that really knows architecture, knows technology, and so on will stay—for a while.”

Gawdat has joined the cohort of leaders waving the red flag that AI will commence a jobs armageddon within the next 5 to 15 years. Companies including Duolingo, Workday, and Klarna have already laid off staffers in droves or stopped hiring humans altogether to get ready for an AI-centric workforce.

But executives shouldn’t celebrate their efficiency gains too soon—their role is also on the chopping block, Gawdat, who worked in tech for 30 years and now writes books on AI development, cautioned.

“CEOs are celebrating that they can now get rid of people and have productivity gains and cost reductions because AI can do that job. The one thing they don’t think of is AI will replace them too,” Gawdat continued. “AGI is going to be better at everything than humans, including being a CEO. You really have to imagine that there will be a time where most incompetent CEOs will be replaced.”

While the vision of human-less companies solely run by robots is incredibly dystopian, the ex-Google executive isn’t afraid of what lies ahead. The 58-year-old doesn’t see AI being the perpetrator of job loss—money-hungry CEOs are actually to blame for letting the technology take over in the pursuit of financial gain, he claimed.

“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with AI—there’s a lot wrong with the value set of humanity at the age of the rise of the machines,” Gawdat said. “And the biggest value set of humanity is capitalism today. And capitalism is all about what? Labor arbitrage.”

Fortune reached out to Gawdat for comment.

For humans to thrive, ‘evil’ world leaders need to be replaced by AI

AI is already outpacing humans when it comes to some abilities—it can code, resolve customer requests, handle administrative work, and even analyze market figures. There’s no telling where its future capabilities lie.

Tech leaders like Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and OpenAI chief Sam Altman are adamant it’ll outpace even the most powerful people by 2030. And that may be a good thing for humanity: For humans to thrive in this new era, immoral corporate executives and world leaders alike need to be replaced by AI, Gawdat advised.

He said that since harmful leaders will use the tech to “magnify the evil that man can do,” technology will make for more moral world leaders—and that this dystopian scenario of AI-enabled politicians is “unavoidable”.

“The only way for us to get to a better place, is for the evil people at the top to be replaced with AI,” Gawdat continued on the podcast. “[World leaders] will have to replace themselves [with] AI. Otherwise, they lose their advantage.”

Gawdat isn’t the only one sounding alarm bells over AI’s impact on humanity’s future. Altman and Google chief Sundar Pichai have both expressed a need for AI regulation—whether that be “major governments” drawing a line in the sand, or creating a high-level governance body to oversee potential harm.

“We are likely to eventually need something like an IAEA for superintelligence efforts,” Altman wrote in a 2023 blogpost, adding that AI projects should have to confront an “international authority that can inspect systems, require audits, test for compliance with safety standards, place restrictions on degrees of deployment and levels of security.”

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