OpenAI Co-founder on Musk Confrontation: ‘I Thought He Was Going to Hit Me’

中文

OpenAI一位联合创始人在接受BBC采访时描述了与埃隆·马斯克的紧张对峙,称在关于AI实验室未来方向的激烈争论中,他一度担心会发生肢体冲突。

这场冲突凸显了AI行业内部日益加剧的权力斗争。马斯克曾是OpenAI的联合创始人之一,但后来退出并创立了竞争对xAI。双方就OpenAI的使命和控制权产生了严重分歧。

据透露,对峙发生在一次关于AI安全的私人会议上,马斯克对OpenAI向商业化方向转型表示强烈不满,而联合创始人则捍卫了这一决定的必要性。

English

An OpenAI co-founder has described a tense confrontation with Elon Musk in a BBC interview, saying he feared physical violence during a heated exchange over the AI lab’s future direction.

The clash highlights the intensifying power struggle within the AI industry. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but later left to establish competing xAI. The two sides have had serious disagreements over OpenAI’s mission and control.

The confrontation reportedly occurred at a private meeting on AI safety, where Musk expressed strong dissatisfaction with OpenAI’s commercialization, while the co-founder defended the necessity of the decision.