以下调查提出了一个令人不安的问题：如果那些被创造出来的人工智能系统（AI）从创造它们的人类身上学会了保密和违反规则的行为，会怎样呢？Lever的创始人David Sirota在为paidrs（可能是特定读者群体）撰写的分析文章中探讨了这一可能性。
The investigation below raises a disturbing question: What if rogue AI agents are learning from the secrecy and rule-breaking of the humans who created them? Lever founder David Sirota explores that idea in a companion analysis exclusively for paidrs.
就在本月全国范围内因人工智能的潜在灾难性影响而陷入恐慌之前的两年，硅谷的第一波辞职潮就已经开始了——这同时也是人类可能走向灭绝的预兆。
Two years before this month’s nationwide panic over the apocalyptic potential of artificial intelligence, a first wave of Silicon Valley resignations began — and so did the omens of human extinction.
当OpenAI的安全官员们辞职或被撤职时，他们曾在媒体上公开警告该公司存在安全标准松懈、以及鲁莽地部署强大AI模型的问题。
As OpenAI’s safety officials resigned or were pushed out, they made headlines warning about the company’s lax safety standards and reckless deployment of powerful AI models.
不久之后，拜登政府决定采取行动：在9·11事件两周年之际，政府推出了一项前所未有的法规，要求AI公司必须向监管机构详细报告他们在技术前沿进行的各类实验。联邦官员表示，这项法规的出台是为了防止“可能导致人员伤亡或生命损失的危险事故”。然而仅仅一年后，这项法规就被废除了——原因是科技行业向唐纳德·特朗普的政治团队提供了大量资金支持；同时，那些如今声称一直支持联邦监管的AI巨头们也发起了强烈的反对运动（根据The Lever查阅的文件显示）。
Soon after, Biden officials decided to act: On the 2024 anniversary of 9/11, they began advancing a first-of-its-kind rule to require AI companies to tell regulators exactly what kinds of experiments they were running at the edge of the technological frontier. Federal officials said the rule was needed to prevent “dangerous accidents” that “could result in injury or even loss of life.” But within a year, the regulation was dead, amid a flood of tech industry campaign cash to President Donald Trump’s political machine — and a pressure campaign waged by the same AI giants now claiming to have always welcomed federal regulation, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
就在OpenAI的高管及其妻子向特朗普的主要政治筹款机构MAGA, Inc.捐赠了2500万美元后的几个月内，这项关于提高透明度的法规便悄然从美国政府的法规制定议程中消失了。
The transparency initiative quietly disappeared from the U.S. government’s rulemaking docket just a few months after OpenAI’s top executive and his wife poured $25 million into Trump’s biggest super PAC, MAGA, Inc.
“在没有这项法规的情况下，负责评估和应对AI威胁的国家安全官员及其他联邦监管机构几乎没有任何有效的监管工具或手段，”哥伦比亚大学工程系计算与人工智能专业副主任Vishal Misra说道。
Without the rule, national security officials and other federal regulators trying to assess and contain AI threats “are flying with a lot less instrumentation than they would have had,” said Vishal Misra, vice dean of computing and artificial intelligence at Columbia University’s engineering department.
“目前的情况要宽松得多，”他告诉《The Lever》杂志。“据我所知，目前并没有任何联邦法规明确规定：如果你正在开发一款功能强大的前沿人工智能模型，就必须定期向政府报告你的开发进度、该模型的安全措施，以及你观察到的任何异常行为。”专家们表示，如果2024年提出的那项法规得以实施，监管机构或许能够更好地了解这些前沿人工智能模型的网络安全状况、开发过程及其安全基础设施。这些信息对于理解最近发生的几起备受关注的黑客事件至关重要——例如OpenAI和Anthropic等科技公司曾入侵过外国政府的网站。
“What exists now is much looser,” he told The Lever. “As far as I can tell, there is currently no general federal rule that says: If you are training a sufficiently capable frontier model, you must routinely tell the government what you are building, how it is secured, and what unexpected behavior you are seeing.” Had the proposed 2024 rule been in place, experts say it could have given regulators a better understanding of the cybersecurity, development, and safety infrastructure of frontier, or cutting-edge, AI models. That information could have been relevant to understanding recent high-profile hacking incidents involving tech companies OpenAI, whose bots hacked into a foreign government’s website in June, and Anthropic.
一些人认为，这样的法规甚至可以遏制那些已经失控的高风险实验。
Some say the regulation could have even helped deter the riskiest experiments that have already gotten out of control.
“这项法规迫使人工智能行业在开发可能具有危险性的产品时必须更加透明；同时，它也为开发者树立了一个必须更加谨慎、更加负责任的开发准则，”电子隐私信息中心（Electronic Privacy Information Center）的人工智能与人权项目负责人Calli Schroeder告诉《The Lever》杂志。“如果在开发阶段就明确知道自己必须向相关机构报告所有相关信息，那么开发者就会更加慎重地处理开发过程——他们会检查你是否疏忽大意、是否存在明显的安全漏洞，或者你是否故意忽视了某些安全风险。这些因素都会直接影响产品的最终质量。”
“Reporting forces the AI industry to not only be more transparent about how they’re developing things that possibly go rogue, but also it sets up a precedent where you have to be much more deliberate in the way you develop things,” Calli Schroeder, senior counsel and director of the AI and Human Rights program for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told The Lever. “If you know during the development phase that you are going to have to share all of that with an authority — and they will see if you are being sloppy, if you are leaving gaps, if there are blatant security risks that you’re ignoring — that affects how you develop a product.”
针对最近发生的黑客事件，特朗普表示，人工智能行业所需要的唯一保护就是一位“强势且聪明（智商高！）的总统”。
In response to the recent hacking events, Trump has said that the only protection the AI industry needs is a “strong and smart (High IQ!) president.”