1113.经济学人-strangle AI with red tape-5

Such overtures may be perfectly justified by the risks of misinformation, electoral manipulation, terrorism, job disruption and other potential hazards that increasingly powerful AI models may spawn.

Yet it is worth bearing in mind that regulation will also bring benefits to the tech giants.

That is because it tends to reinforce existing market structures, creating costs that incumbents find easiest to bear, and raising barriers to entry.

This is important. If big tech uses regulation to fortify its position at the commanding heights of generative AI, there is a trade-off.

The giants are more likely to deploy the technology to make their existing products better than to replace them altogether.

They will seek to protect their core businesses (enterprise software in Microsoft’s case and search in Google’s).

Instead of ushering in an era of Schumpeterian creative destruction, it will serve as a reminder that large incumbents currently control the innovation process—what some call “creative accumulation”. The technology may end up being less revolutionary than it could be.

这是《经济学人》2023年5月刊的一篇文章'Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape'第5、6段。

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manipulation：操纵；处理

hazards：危险

spawn：造成；影响；产生

这样的建议可能是非常合理的，因为不断强大的人工智能模型将会造成很多风险，比如错误信息、选举操纵、恐怖主义、工作混乱以及其他潜在的危险。

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不过，监管也会给科技巨头带来益处，这点值得铭记。

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reinforce：加强

incumbents：现任；在任者

这是因为它会加强现有的市场结构，造成的成本现有公司能够承受，并且还能提高准入门槛。

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fortify ：加强

这点很重要。如果科技巨头使用监管来加强其生成人工智能上的制高点，那就需要有个权衡。

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科技巨头更可能的是部署这些技术，让其现有产品变得更好，而不是完全代替它们。

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他们会探寻保护自己的核心业务（微软的企业级软件，谷歌的搜索引擎）。

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ushering ：引领

并不是熊彼德创造性破坏的时代。而是它将作为一个提醒 ，现在的巨头们控制着人们所说的“创新性积累”的创新过程。这项技术最终可能没有它本应该具有的创新性。

词汇

manipulation：操纵；处理

hazards：危险

spawn：造成；影响；产生

reinforce：加强

incumbents：现任；在任者

fortify ：加强

ushering ：引领