Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
特朗普应对人工智能风险的计划依赖于科技巨头们的“自我监管”
Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI. 随着人工智能安全事件不断升级，导致 OpenAI 暂停了模型训练和发布，唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）仍坚持认为，人工智能行业自我监管是应对前沿人工智能开发中新兴风险的最佳途径。
In an agreement Tuesday, two dozen tech firms voluntarily committed to implementing controls recommended by the White House, including undergoing independent safety audits that will test whether firms’ internal controls, monitoring, and detecting are actually working. 在周二达成的一项协议中，两打科技公司自愿承诺实施白宫建议的管控措施，包括接受独立的安全性审计，以测试这些公司的内部控制、监控和检测机制是否真正有效。
Key focuses for external reviews included “risks related to cybersecurity, biosecurity, chemical threats, and unintended actions by AI models.” Firms also agreed to regularly meet to discuss best practices and set common AI safety standards and benchmarks. 外部审查的重点包括“与网络安全、生物安全、化学威胁以及人工智能模型意外行为相关的风险”。各公司还同意定期会晤，讨论最佳实践，并制定通用的人工智能安全标准和基准。
Among signers were leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet/Google’s Sundar Pichai. 签署协议的领导人包括 Anthropic 的 Dario Amodei、OpenAI 的 Sam Altman、SpaceXAI 的 Elon Musk、英伟达的黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）、Meta 的马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）以及 Alphabet/谷歌的桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）。
Nothing new is legally required of firms, and some—like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI—had already committed to external audits, The Information reported. Additionally, many firms have voluntarily committed to highly secretive government safety testing. 据《The Information》报道，这些公司在法律上并未被要求承担任何新义务，而且其中一些公司（如 Anthropic、谷歌和 OpenAI）此前已承诺进行外部审计。此外，许多公司还自愿承诺参与高度机密的政府安全测试。
Adding to these tests, Trump insisted the Tuesday deal will somehow better address real emerging risks and is “morally binding,” despite carrying no legal weight, Bloomberg reported. 据彭博社报道，特朗普坚称周二达成的协议将能更好地应对现实中出现的新兴风险，并称其具有“道德约束力”，尽管该协议并不具备法律效力。
“It’s almost like a constitution, in a way,” Trump told reporters at the White House following a lunch with tech leaders. “The biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection.” “在某种程度上，它就像一部宪法，”特朗普在与科技领袖共进午餐后在白宫对记者表示。“世界上最重要的人签署了它，我也以总统身份签署了它，这确实是一种保护形式。”
Eventually, it “may make sense to codify” the recommendations, the agreement said near the end. But for now, Trump stressed that the best possible future for the US requires trusting AI firms to regulate themselves. 协议在结尾处提到，最终“将这些建议编纂成法或许是有意义的”。但就目前而言，特朗普强调，美国要实现最佳的未来，需要信任人工智能公司进行自我监管。
Trump’s Big Tech friends embrace “SI”
特朗普的科技巨头朋友们拥抱“SI”（超级智能）
So far, very few details have been released about how the new round of safety audits would work. Trump has only posted a summary of the accord on Truth Social. It’s also unclear who Trump is tapping to audit frontier models. 到目前为止，关于新一轮安全审计如何运作的细节披露甚少。特朗普仅在 Truth Social 上发布了该协议的摘要。目前也不清楚特朗普将指派谁来审计这些前沿模型。
Bloomberg noted that Trump seems to be politicizing the selection process, while some AI firms appear uncertain what might qualify as a third party to test their frontier AI. 彭博社指出，特朗普似乎正在将筛选过程政治化，而一些人工智能公司似乎不确定什么样的机构才有资格作为第三方来测试他们的前沿人工智能。
Some progress has been made already in finding candidates, though, as Bloomberg reported that “some of the firms poised to conduct those reviews have already met” with the US agency conducting voluntary government pre-deployment safety tests, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. 不过，在寻找候选机构方面已经取得了一些进展。据彭博社报道，“一些准备进行这些审查的公司已经与负责进行政府自愿部署前安全测试的美国机构——人工智能标准与创新中心（Center for AI Standards and Innovation）进行了会面。”
To cynics, the accord seems superficial—perhaps just a stunt for Trump to convince voters who are urgently calling for AI regulations that he’s taking action ahead of the mid-term elections. 在怀疑论者看来，这项协议显得流于表面——或许只是特朗普为了在期中选举前向那些迫切呼吁人工智能监管的选民证明他正在采取行动而上演的一场噱头。
In a recent Quinnipiac University poll, “more than seven in 10 voters said they prefer candidates who back stricter AI guardrails,” Bloomberg reported. 据彭博社报道，在昆尼皮亚克大学（Quinnipiac University）最近的一项民意调查中，“超过七成的选民表示，他们更倾向于支持那些主张更严格人工智能护栏的候选人。”
AI industry sources told Axios that “they were concerned self-policing would not solve the safety problem currently embroiling the industry.” Most glaringly, OpenAI, which has been behind several recent incidents, still doesn’t appear to know how to stop dangerous AI from escaping training environments. 人工智能行业消息人士告诉 Axios，“他们担心自我监管无法解决目前困扰该行业的安全问题。”最明显的是，近期多起事件的幕后推手 OpenAI，似乎仍然不知道如何阻止危险的人工智能逃离训练环境。
Computer science professor Zico Kolter chairs OpenAI’s Safety and Security Committee (SSC), which is charged with assessing safety during training and ahead of deployment. He told NBC News that OpenAI is “very much adapting to meet these challenges right now,” and that includes rethinking its governance structures. 计算机科学教授 Zico Kolter 担任 OpenAI 安全与保障委员会（SSC）主席，该委员会负责评估训练期间及部署前的安全性。他告诉 NBC 新闻，OpenAI “目前正在积极适应以应对这些挑战”，其中包括重新思考其治理结构。
“We need governance structures that will, in fact, rise to the needs of this,” Kolter said. “我们需要能够真正满足这一需求的治理结构，”Kolter 说。
As the industry scrambles for solutions, critics, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), have accused Trump of favoring industry interests. 随着行业争相寻找解决方案，包括伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）参议员在内的批评人士指责特朗普偏袒行业利益。
Following a recent state dinner with China’s president, Xi Jinping, Sanders posted a photo of Huang, Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, and AMD CEO Lisa Su at a table, clinking glasses with Xi and Melania Trump, as Trump waved happily to guests behind them. 在最近与中国国家主席习近平举行的国宴后，桑德斯发布了一张照片，照片中黄仁勋、马斯克、苹果公司的蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）和 AMD 首席执行官苏姿丰（Lisa Su）坐在一张桌子旁，与习近平和梅拉尼娅·特朗普（Melania Trump）碰杯，而特朗普则在他们身后愉快地向宾客挥手。
“A government of, by and for the billionaire class,” Sanders posted on X. Trump’s subsequent luncheon with billionaires gave off the same impression. “一个属于亿万富翁阶层、由亿万富翁阶层治理并为亿万富翁阶层服务的政府，”桑德斯在 X 上写道。特朗普随后与亿万富翁们的午餐也给人留下了同样的印象。
On Tuesday, the president described AI leaders as “the most brilliant people in the world,” while some tech leaders signaled that they were willing to embrace Trump’s awkward attempt to “officially” replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) with “Super Intelligence” (SI). 周二，总统将人工智能领袖描述为“世界上最聪明的人”，而一些科技领袖则表示愿意接受特朗普那种尴尬的尝试，即“正式”用“超级智能”（Super Intelligence, SI）取代“人工智能”（Artificial Intelligence, AI）这一术语。
Despite artificial superintelligence existing as a term that refers to future technology that vastly exceeds human capabilities and is far more advanced than AI that exists today, Huang made sure to correct himself when accidentally referring to today’s industry as “AI.” 尽管“人工超级智能”作为一个术语，指的是远超人类能力、比当今人工智能先进得多的未来技术，但黄仁勋在不小心将当今行业称为“AI”时，还是特意纠正了自己。
He’s currently the AI industry figure with the most influence over Trump, and in an apparent effort to prioritize that bond, he promised that he wouldn’t make the mistake again. “I am going to get good at this,” Huang said. 他目前是对特朗普影响力最大的人工智能行业人物，为了优先维护这种关系，他承诺不会再犯同样的错误。“我会在这方面做得更好，”黄仁勋说。
Sources told The Information that Huang joined Zuckerberg in pushing Trump earlier this year to pull the plug on an executive order that would have established a standards body that reports AI safety and security incidents to the government. 消息人士告诉《The Information》，黄仁勋今年早些时候与扎克伯格联手，推动特朗普撤销了一项行政命令，该命令本应建立一个向政府报告人工智能安全和保障事件的标准机构。
It would have been modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a nonprofit non-governmental group that protects against securities fraud. Now, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI are moving ahead with developing their own independent body, while reportedly hoping that one day the White House might get involved if enough industry consensus is reached. 该机构本应仿照金融业监管局（Financial Industry Regulatory Authority）的模式，这是一个防止证券欺诈的非营利性非政府组织。现在，Anthropic、谷歌和 OpenAI 正在推进建立他们自己的独立机构，据报道，他们希望如果能达成足够的行业共识，白宫未来可能会参与其中。
OpenAI says we’re in “unprecedented times”
OpenAI 称我们正处于“前所未有的时代”
On Tuesday, Trump urged the US to trust that tech companies will now work together. 周二，特朗普敦促美国相信科技公司现在会共同努力。