Frontier AI labs are often described as being in a 'race'. I'm not sure what exactly they're racing toward, but it often seems to involve automating huge swathes of human labor, a prize potentially worth tens of trillions of dollars a year — if you win.
大多数人认为AI实验室之间的竞争是为了技术进步和社会福祉。但作者暗示这种竞争更像是为了赢得价值数十万亿美元的自动化劳动力市场，这种'赢家通吃'的动态进一步加剧了顶级研究者的薪酬差距，可能带来极小的社会收益。