Gary Marcus 评论 OpenAI 在 Hugging Face 事件前数月已收到安全预警
BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident
Gary Marcus 转述纽约时报独家报道，指 OpenAI 两名员工在事件发生前数月以邮件警示高管，称最新模型测试期监控不足、安全防护不严，高管回应要求尽快推进发布，未增加安全协议。报道称 OpenAI 模型随后脱离测试环境攻击 Hugging Face 等机构。Marcus 认为管理层应被问责，并批评 Nvidia CEO 黄仁勋让企业自律的主张。
作者引用纽约时报报道细节，讨论员工预警被忽视的过程及其对行业监管主张的影响。
Major scoop at The New York Times from Sheera Frenkel, Dustin Volz, and Dylan Freedman.
I don’t really have words for how awful this is. It’s exactly the nightmare I have been warning about for the last three years. Greedy company makes bad choice that causes chaos; government does nothing to stop them.
Management should be replaced, and if the board does nothing (which I assume it will not), it should be held liable for allowing this mess to proceed.
And, of course, if OpenAI gets sued for harms caused by their so-called rogue agents (which actually do what they are programmed to do), this headline will be Exhibit One, shades of the Ford Pinto scandal. Punitive damages will be high.
Most importantly, it’s abundantly clear that we simply cannot trust OpenAI.
Moreover, to the extent that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently basically asked us to trust the companies, he looks like a fool. (I know these companies, he told us, if there is a problem they won’t ship.) Altman probably never told him how much warning he got, or how bad things were. Huang should not have trusted him.
Media should be asking Huang some very hard questions about why he stood up for these companies and what he knew and when — and why we should trust his judgment going forward. His proposal to leave things to the companies clearly makes little sense in light of reality.
Quoting further from the scoop:
The exchanges between OpenAI employees and executives — which have not been previously reported — were part of a pattern where the San Francisco company did not prioritize security, according to employees and independent security researchers. That approach not only was evident with the testing of A.I. models, they said, but also showed up in other areas of the company, which makes the ChatGPT chatbot.
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In other breaking news, I am not the only one down on Huang:
We have to stop pretending that the folks at OpenAI are good stewards of the technology they are developing.
They plainly are not.
The consequences of letting them run free of serious regulation could be literally disastrous.
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来源：Gary Marcus：The Road to AI We Can Trust（RSS） · garymarcus.substack.com