大科技公司推动AI加速发展，但引发伦理与环境危机。
Irresponsible AI: big tech's influence on AI research and associated impacts
- 大科技主导AI研究，追求规模扩张与通用系统
- AI导致社会与环境负面影响加剧，根源在大科技驱动
- 呼吁研究者通过责任共担与集体行动抵制不负责任的AI
人工智能系统的快速开发、部署与应用，得益于大科技公司在该领域的日益渗透。这一趋势伴随日益严重的伦理担忧以及加剧的社会与环境影响。本文认为，不负责任的AI发展主要由大科技公司的影响与参与所驱动。首先，我们分析大科技在AI研究中不断增长且不成比例的影响力，指出其对规模扩大和通用系统追求，从根本上与负责任、合乎伦理及可持续的AI发展相悖。其次，我们回顾当前关键的环境与社会负面效应，并追溯其与大科技影响力的关联。第三，我们探讨驱动大科技行为的深层经济动因。最后，作为行动呼吁，我们邀请AI研究者通过强化相关方责任与集体行动策略，对抗大科技在不负责任的AI发展中的影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The accelerated development, deployment and adoption of artificial intelligence systems has been fuelled by the increasing presence of big tech in the AI field. This trend has been accompanied by growing ethical concerns and intensified societal and environmental impacts. This position paper argues that irresponsible AI development is strongly driven by big tech's influence and involvement in the field. First, we examine the growing and disproportionate influence of big tech in AI research and argue that its drive for scaling and general-purpose systems is fundamentally at odds with the responsible, ethical, and sustainable development of AI. Second, we review key current environmental and societal negative impacts of AI and trace their connections to big tech's influence. Third, we discuss the underlying economic forces driving big tech's actions. Finally, as a call to action, we invite AI researchers to counter big tech's influence in irresponsible AI development through strategies that build on the responsibility of implicated actors and collective action.
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