前DeepMind公关员工称该实验室曾禁止公开讨论AI灭绝风险
原标题：Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
AI 摘要
前DeepMind公关与政策团队成员Vishal Maini（2018至2022年在职）披露，DeepMind曾禁止任何层级员工公开讨论人类灭绝风险，并培训研究人员将此类风险斥为危言耸听、比作《终结者》等电影，转而强调医疗和气候等正面应用。内部团队清楚AI对齐问题尚未解决且人手严重不足，经数月争取后公司放宽规定，允许以正面框架发布安全内容。Maini称内部认知与对外宣传之间的差距正在缩小，因为证据如今更难被忽视。
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Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk Not surprising, but still telling. Vishal Maini, who worked on Deepmind's communications and policy team from 2018 to 2022, says "external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone, at any level of the organization." Researchers were coached to dismiss those risks as alarmism, compare them to "movies like Terminator," and pivot to positive applications in healthc