At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
在 OpenAI 的庭审中，马斯克重提一段旧日友谊
Among the most interesting parts of Elon Musk’s testimony Tuesday in his lawsuit against OpenAI wasn’t the charity he claims was stolen from him (we all knew that was coming). It was about an old friend.
在周二针对 OpenAI 的诉讼中，埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）的证词中最引人注目的部分并非他声称被窃取的慈善事业（我们都知道这一点），而是关于他的一位老朋友。
Musk testified that one of his core motivations for co-founding OpenAI was a falling-out with Google’s Larry Page over AI safety — specifically, a conversation in which Musk raised the prospect of AI wiping out humanity and Page shrugged it off as “fine,” so long as AI itself survived. Page called Musk a “speciest” for being “pro human.” Musk called the attitude “insane.”
马斯克作证称，他联合创立 OpenAI 的核心动机之一，是与谷歌的拉里·佩奇（Larry Page）在人工智能安全问题上产生了分歧。具体来说，当时马斯克提出了人工智能可能消灭人类的前景，而佩奇却不以为意，认为只要人工智能本身能存续，“没问题”。佩奇称马斯克因为“支持人类”而带有“物种歧视”。马斯克则称这种态度“简直疯了”。
That’s mostly notable given how close the two once were. Fortune included them on its 2016 list of secretly best-friend business leaders; Musk was so comfortable with Page that he regularly crashed at his Palo Alto home. Page once told Charlie Rose that he’d rather give his money to Musk than to charity.
考虑到两人曾经的关系有多亲密，这一点尤为值得注意。《财富》杂志曾将他们列入 2016 年“秘密商业领袖挚友”名单；马斯克与佩奇关系好到经常借宿在佩奇位于帕洛阿托的家中。佩奇曾告诉查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose），他宁愿把钱给马斯克，也不愿捐给慈善机构。
The friendship didn’t survive OpenAI. When Musk recruited Google AI star Ilya Sutskever to help launch the company in 2015, Page felt personally betrayed and cut off contact. It’s a story Musk has told before — including to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk — but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.
这段友谊没能挺过 OpenAI 的创立。当马斯克在 2015 年招募谷歌人工智能明星伊利亚·苏茨克维（Ilya Sutskever）来帮助创办该公司时，佩奇感到受到了个人背叛，并切断了联系。马斯克以前讲过这个故事——包括在作家沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）为其撰写的马斯克畅销传记中——但周二是他首次在宣誓后陈述此事。
Page hasn’t commented, and it’s worth remembering everything that Musk said was in service of a lawsuit. Still, as recently as 2023 he told tech podcaster Lex Fridman he wanted to patch things up: “We were friends for a very long time.”
佩奇尚未置评，且值得记住的是，马斯克所说的一切都是为了诉讼服务。尽管如此，就在 2023 年，他还曾告诉科技播客主持人莱克斯·弗里德曼（Lex Fridman），他希望能修复这段关系：“我们曾是长期的朋友。”