事到如今，这已算不上什么新闻，但又有谷歌研究人员因担忧人工智能风险而离职。罗伯特·奥卡拉汉（Robert O'Callahan）是位于新西兰的谷歌DeepMind的技术专家，他表示人工智能“当前的变化速度过高”。他曾参与设计芯片工具，这些工具有助于降低人工智能的成本并提升其运行速度，但他表示自己已无法再为这一贡献辩护。

奥卡拉汉将超级智能人工智能带来的风险描述为“真实但不确定”，并称“在不久的将来追求通用超级智能（ASI）本质上是不负责任的”。他还警告称存在认知投降、人工智能诱发的精神错乱与孤独感、权力集中、经济动荡、网络安全风险以及缺乏问责制等问题。他表示，他愿意打赌人工智能的危害将超过其益处。他说，许多DeepMind的同事也持有同样的担忧，但很少公开发声。他现在希望从事“明确以人为本”的工作。

他引用了埃利泽·尤德科夫斯基（Eliezer Yudkowsky）和内特·索尔斯（Nate Soares）的文章《如果任何人建造它》，但并未赞同其关于超级智能人工智能必然带来灾难的观点。这两位作者与有效利他主义运动有关，该运动因倾向于慈善而非财富再分配而备受争议。Axios报道称，白宫的一份备忘录将该运动描绘为一个类似邪教的小众团体，并攻击Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫迪（Dario Amodei）成为人工智能“末日论”的代表人物。

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It's barely news at this point, but another Google researcher has quit over AI risks. Robert O'Callahan , a technical expert at Google DeepMind in New Zealand, says AI's "current rate of change is far too high." He worked on chip design tools that helped make AI cheaper and faster, a contribution he says he can no longer justify.

O'Callahan calls the risk from superintelligent AI "real but uncertain" and says "aiming for ASI in the near future is inherently irresponsible." He also warns of cognitive surrender , AI-induced psychosis and loneliness , concentrated power , economic disruption , cybersecurity risks, and lack of accountability . He'd bet AI's harms outweigh its benefits. Many DeepMind colleagues share his concerns but rarely speak publicly, he says. He now wants to do "unambiguously pro-human" work.

He links to "If Anyone Builds It" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares without endorsing its claim that superintelligent AI inevitably brings catastrophe. The authors are tied to effective altruism , a controversial movement criticized for favoring charity over redistribution. Axios says a White House memo casts the movement as a cult-like fringe group and attacks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the face of AI "doomerism."

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