[丽莎]OpenAI首席执行官支持巴勒斯坦和穆斯林科技

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OpenAI 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Sam Altman 权衡了以色列和巴勒斯坦持续武装冲突的一些影响，特别表示他支持那些感到不舒服和不安全的穆斯林、阿拉伯和巴勒斯坦科技工作者分享他们的经历。

出生于美国的犹太人奥特曼在埃隆·马斯克的社交平台 X 的账户上写道：

与我交谈过的科技界穆斯林和阿拉伯（尤其是巴勒斯坦）同事在谈论他们最近的经历时感到不舒服，通常是因为担心遭到报复和职业前景受损。

我们的行业应该团结起来支持这些同事；……

— Sam Altman (@sama) 2024 年 1 月 5 日

他还指出，像他这样的犹太人是反犹太主义的目标，他将其称为“世界上严重且日益严重的问题”，但表示他“看到我们行业中有很多人支持我，对此我深表赞赏” ”。

我是犹太人。

我相信反犹太主义是世界上一个严重且日益严重的问题，我看到我们行业中有很多人支持我，对此我深表赞赏。

我认为穆斯林的这种情况要少得多。

— Sam Altman (@sama) 2024 年 1 月 5 日

大约一个月前，奥特曼在 X 上发帖称，他对“尤其是美国左派”反犹太主义程度的判断是错误的，而且情况比他之前认为的还要严重。

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很长一段时间以来，我一直在说反犹太主义，特别是美国左派的反犹太主义，并不像人们声称的那么严重。

我只想声明我完全错了。

我还是不明白，真的。

或者知道该怎么做。

但这太操蛋了。

— 萨姆·奥尔特曼 (@sama) 2023 年 12 月 8 日

在回答粉丝最近提出的问题时，Altman 进一步表示，他认为 OpenAI 的人工智能聊天机器人 ChatGPT 在幽默方面应该平等对待犹太人和穆斯林。

当然，两者都不允许，或者都不允许

— Sam Altman (@sama) 2024 年 1 月 5 日

ChatGPT 此前曾受到英国裔伊拉克作家 Mona Chalabi 等知名人士的批评，因为它对有关以色列和巴勒斯坦的提示做出了不同的反应，而且似乎偏向以色列。

在紧张且后果严重的政治气氛中发表的值得注意的声明

随着以色列继续对恐怖组织哈马斯采取军事行动，奥特曼的声明是迄今为止技术领导人支持巴勒斯坦人、穆斯林和阿拉伯人的最引人注目的声明之一，也是迄今为止为数不多的高调声明之一。

Hamas, based in Palestine’s Gaza Strip, was responsible for a series of brutal murders, rapes, and kidnappings of Israelis on October 7, 2023, and continues to level attacks on Israeli forces.

Since then, Israel’s military strikes — largely aerial attacks — to root out Hamas have cost the lives of more than 21,000 Palestinians, including an estimated 5,000+ children, and resulted in the displacement of an estimated 1.8 million people.

The initial Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas took a toll on Israel with more than 1,100 killed and at least 240 people taken hostage, though scores have now been released in prisoner exchanges between the two sides.

VentureBeat previously reported how the initial Oct. 7 attacks and military call-up of Israel’s armed forces and reserves — where the country practices mandatory service for citizens — was impacting the thriving AI industry there and globally.

We also covered the ongoing larger political fallout, including the controversy that erupted around Web Summit co-founder and CEO Paddy Cosgrave, an Irish citizen who posted on X implying Israel’s military was committing “war crimes” in its fight against Hamas. Cosgrave faced immediate pushback from pro-Israel tech voices and apologized, but after numerous leading sponsors including Google and Intel pulled out of the 2023 Web Summit, Cosgrave resigned from his post as CEO.

Not the first OpenAI employee to speak out

Altman’s commentary also follows a controversy surrounding another member of the OpenAI team, Tal Broda, Head of Research Platform, who posted on X several messages in early October 2023 supporting Israel’s military campaign and its resulting destruction of buildings in Gaza, including one stating “More! No mercy! IDF don’t stop!” and another stating “There is no Palestine. There never was, and never will be.” Palestinians and others supportive of their fate rushed to condemn Broda’s remarks.

“More! No mercy! IDF don’t stop!”Tal Broda is Head of Research at @OpenAI, which develops ChatGPT. To express your concerns:? VP of Peoplediane@openai.com? VP of Global Affairsamakanju@openai.com? Also bring awareness to:@sama@satyanadella @miramurati @gdb pic.twitter.com/X4zPs6c9lb

— Stop Zionist Hate (@StopZionistHate) December 15, 2023

Clearly, as with nearly any organization of medium-to-large size, OpenAI harbors a multitude of perspectives and opinions on the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine. But Altman’s move to publicly support Palestinians is among the more significant political statements from a tech leader since the October 7 attacks and may put him at odds with others in his own firm and, judging by recent history, the larger tech industry.

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