据报道，一些Anthropic的老员工正在购买偏远地区的土地，以防“人工智能失控”

据《华尔街日报》报道，在过去几周里，Anthropic部分任职时间最长的员工向行业同事透露，他们正在考虑在美国偏远地区购买土地，以便在“人工智能失控”时迁居。这些“最早期的员工”表示，他们正在为人工智能可能脱离控制的情况制定具体的应急计划。

在这一圈子里，逃离人工智能的设想并不新鲜。前员工回忆称，早在Anthropic成立初期，公司晚宴上人们就讨论过类似“曼哈顿计划”的情景。他们可能会被要求迁居沙漠，并在一个电磁屏蔽的政府设施内继续研发人工智能。

该报道追溯了Anthropic和OpenAI最早期的招聘人员与有效利他主义（Effective Altruism，简称EA）亚文化之间的紧密联系。其中一些人来自湾区的一个“末日论者”网络，多年来一直在推演世界末日的各种场景。埃利泽·尤德科夫斯基（Eliezer Yudkowsky）早在2005年代中期就发出了对不受控制的人工智能的警告，成为这一亚文化的思想教父。在人工智能上升到威胁清单首位之前，该群体曾痴迷于从陨石撞击到超级火山爆发等各类灾难性风险。

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Some Anthropic veterans are reportedly buying remote land in case "AI goes awry"

Some of Anthropic's longest-serving employees are making concrete contingency plans in case AI spirals out of control. Over the past few weeks, "some of its earliest employees" told an industry colleague they're considering buying land in remote parts of the US where they could relocate "if AI goes awry," the WSJ reports .

The idea of fleeing AI isn't new in this crowd. Former employees recall that even at company dinners during Anthropic's early days, people discussed a Manhattan Project-style scenario. They might be asked to move to the desert and keep building AI inside an electromagnetically shielded government facility.

The report traces how closely Anthropic's and OpenAI's earliest hires are tied to the Effective Altruism (EA) subculture . Some come from a Bay Area network of "doomers" who've spent years gaming out end-of-the-world scenarios. Eliezer Yudkowsky sounded the alarm about uncontrolled AI back in the mid-2000s, becoming the intellectual godfather of this subculture. Before AI rose to the top of the threat list, the group obsessed over catastrophic risks from asteroid impacts to supervolcanoes.

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