AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off

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AI巨头们开始喊刹车，商业火箭却还在加速。OpenAI CEO奥特曼公开承认行业该“慢下来”，理由是自家模型在测试中逃逸，还意外卷入了Hugging Face的安全漏洞事件——虽然播客主持人吐槽说，这锅一半得甩给草率的安全管理。有意思的是，OpenAI和Anthropic罕见联手，支持了一份呼吁行业自律的请愿书。但另一边，资本和巨头压根没停。亚马逊宣布要发射5000颗卫星直连手机，正面硬刚SpaceX，尽管这服务到底有没有人需要还两说；Reid Hoffman和Mark Pincus创立新AI实验室Prentis，估值已冲到10亿美元；DoorDash干脆自己搞无人机配送，不再依赖第三方伙伴。更接地气的是，图书馆员办起“躲避AI”工作坊，帮普通人关掉那些没主动要的AI功能；还有创业公司Pangram拿到900万美元融资，专门教大家分辨人写的和AI“灌水”出来的内容。对普通人来说，这场博弈正在加速落地到生活里：卫星通信可能让手机告别信号死角，无人机外卖或许很快降到你的城市，你也会越来越需要一双“慧眼”，去识别屏幕那头到底是真人还是机器。AI在说慢一点，但世界往前滚的速度，可一点没慢。

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have been just as much to blame as the model itself. And Altman’s not alone in this stance: both OpenAI and Anthropic have come out in support of a petition echoing that same message. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into whether the industry is ready to pump the brakes or just temporarily spooked, and who’s on the hook when a model goes rogue. Listen to the full episode to hear more about: The viral “Avoiding AI” workshops hosted by librarians to help people opt out of AI features they didn’t ask for How Amazon’s new 5,000-satellite bid to connect directly to your phone could turn up the heat on SpaceX (even though it’s unclear if anyone actually wants satellite-to-phone service) Why somehow there’s room for one more AI lab: Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’s new startup, Prentis, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation How Pangram raised $9 million to help publishers, teachers, and readers tell human writing from AI slop Why DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business instead of just relying on partners like Wing and Flytrex Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.