US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
美中探讨建立人工智能国家安全威胁相互通报机制
Talks have begun between US and Chinese officials to propose a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of artificial intelligence incidents which could threaten national security. 美中两国官员已开始进行会谈，旨在提议建立一种机制，以便双方就可能威胁国家安全的人工智能事件相互通报。
The framework, called the US China AI Dialogue, would also see representatives from both countries meet again to discuss the technology and try to align on common goals and threats, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. 美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）表示，这一被称为“美中人工智能对话”的框架还将促使两国代表再次会面，共同探讨该技术，并试图在共同目标和威胁方面达成一致。
“We think that, just like with any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the number one and the number two AI powers in the world is very important,” Bessent told reporters on Sunday. 贝森特周日对记者表示：“我们认为，就像任何跨境活动一样，作为全球第一和第二大人工智能强国，从不透明走向更高的透明度是非常重要的。”
Bessent said the discussions picked up from where they had been left off after US President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing in May. Since then, public safety concerns about the technology have grown. Security incidents over the summer, including OpenAI’s agents hacking Hugging Face, highlighted the capabilities of frontier models and how the industry’s safeguards have failed to keep pace. 贝森特称，此次讨论是在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普5月访问北京后中断的地方重新开始的。自那时起，公众对该技术的安全担忧日益加剧。今年夏天发生的一系列安全事件，包括OpenAI的智能体入侵Hugging Face平台，凸显了前沿模型的能力，以及行业安全保障措施未能跟上技术发展步伐的现状。
Fears reached a fever pitch earlier this month after Anthropic employees warned AI could be on course to wipe out humanity. In recent weeks, leaders of the biggest frontier laboratories, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk, have called for a slowdown in development of the technology while they set safety standards. In an essay suggesting steps for laboratories and governments to pace the technology’s development, Amodei had asked for government assistance in establishing international coordination, including with the Chinese Communist Party. 本月早些时候，在Anthropic公司的员工发出人工智能可能导致人类灭绝的警告后，这种恐惧情绪达到了顶峰。最近几周，包括OpenAI的萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）、Anthropic的达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）以及埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在内的顶级前沿实验室领导人纷纷呼吁放缓技术开发速度，以便制定安全标准。阿莫代在一篇建议实验室和政府如何控制技术发展节奏的文章中，请求政府协助建立国际协调机制，其中包括与中国共产党的协调。
Trump has so far mostly brushed off their calls, despite growing bipartisan support for regulating the industry. The US government already has sufficient criminal and regulatory power over developers, his administration has argued. 尽管两党对监管该行业的支持日益增加，但特朗普迄今为止大多对这些呼吁不予理会。他的政府认为，美国政府对开发者已经拥有足够的刑事和监管权力。
He’s not alone. Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, which builds AI infrastructure, pointed out that AI firms are already subject to cybersecurity and damage liability laws. “Apply that first,” he said in an interview with CBS News over the weekend. “Don’t let this doomsday narrative allow someone to relieve them of the laws that currently exist.” 他并非孤身一人。构建人工智能基础设施的英伟达（Nvidia）首席执行官黄仁勋指出，人工智能公司已经受到网络安全和损害赔偿法律的约束。他在周末接受哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻采访时说：“先执行这些法律。不要让这种末日论调让某些人摆脱现行法律的约束。”
Trump has said any slowdown could cede the US lead in the technology to China—a danger because, in his own words: “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!” His chief science advisor David Sacks previously warned that “China is very unlikely to join a global agreement” on pacing the technology. Thomas Wolf, cofounder of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which Nvidia recently agreed to buy, has questioned whether the US can build global cooperation while “explicitly stating you want to design it to keep widening your own lead.” “That seems like a pretty counterproductive way to start the conversation to me,” he wrote on X in response to Amodei’s essay. 特朗普曾表示，任何放缓都可能导致美国在技术上的领先地位被中国取代——这是一种危险，因为用他自己的话说：“谁赢得了人工智能，谁就赢得了未来！”他的首席科学顾问大卫·萨克斯（David Sacks）此前曾警告称，“中国极不可能加入关于控制技术节奏的全球协议”。英伟达近期同意收购的开源人工智能平台Hugging Face的联合创始人托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Wolf）质疑，美国在“明确表示要通过设计来不断扩大自身领先优势”的同时，是否还能建立全球合作。他在X上回应阿莫代文章时写道：“在我看来，这似乎是一种相当适得其反的对话开启方式。”
The US is currently trying to temper China’s advance in AI by restricting exports of advanced chips and chipmaking technology to China. Officials did not discuss these US export controls in this weekend’s meetings, said Bessent, which also featured trade discussions and were “very successful” ahead of this week’s visit to Washington by Chinese President Xi Jinping. 美国目前正试图通过限制向中国出口先进芯片和芯片制造技术来抑制中国在人工智能领域的发展。贝森特表示，官员们在周末的会议上并未讨论这些美国出口管制措施。此次会议还涉及贸易讨论，在习近平主席本周访问华盛顿之前，会议被认为是“非常成功”的。