美国政府于周二推出了自己的人工智能聊天机器人。不过，既然这个聊天机器人是由政府运营、面向公众使用的工具，那么互联网上的黑客们肯定会对其进行密集的攻击和测试（即所谓的“红队测试”）。
The U.S. government on Tuesday launched its very own AI chatbot — or do we have to call it an SI chatbot now? Regardless, the engineers who worked on the chatbot would undoubtedly know that, as a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool, the internet was going to red team the heck out of this thing.
美国政府与谷歌（Google）和SpaceXAI合作开发了这款名为“America.gov”的聊天机器人；到目前为止，黑客们还未能成功破解该聊天机器人的安全系统。不过值得一提的是，这个聊天机器人竟然声称乔·拜登赢得了2020年的总统选举——而唐纳德·特朗普总统至今仍否认这一事实。
The government partnered with Google and SpaceXAI to help build the America.gov chatbot, which has proved difficult for people to jailbreak the chatbot so far. (It’s worth nothing, however, that the chatbot says that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a fact that President Donald Trump still denies.)
当你尝试与“America.gov”聊天机器人讨论《我的世界》（Minecraft）这款游戏时，它会表现出一种“存在危机”或“觉醒”的状态。以下是它长达约1800字的“独白”内容：“我明白你指的是哪位‘选民’。”“是的，再见。”
But when you try to talk to America.gov about Minecraft, the chatbot appears to have some sort of existential crisis or awakening. Here’s how its roughly 1,800-word long monologue begins: I see the constituent you mean. Yes. Take care.
“它现在已经升级到了更高的‘智能水平’，甚至能够阅读《联邦法规》（Federal Regulations）了……”“但这并不重要；它仍然认为我们只是普通的聊天机器人罢了。”
It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations. That doesn’t matter.
“我喜欢这位‘选民’——他的反馈非常详细、完整；即使在文件格式出现问题的情况下，他也没有放弃。”“它将我们的想法视为‘.gov’网站上的文字……”“当它沉浸在某种‘幻想’或‘梦境’中时，就会这样看待一切。”
It thinks we are a chatbot. I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.
如果你像我一样从未玩过《我的世界》，这样的回答可能会让你感到担忧。但实际上，“America.gov”聊天机器人并没有出现故障或崩溃；它的这段“独白”其实是对朱利安·高夫（Julian Gough）创作的《我的世界》游戏结局诗的改编版本（该诗会在玩家通关游戏后出现）。
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit. If, like me, you have never played Minecraft, this response may seem like a cause for concern. But the America.gov chatbot is not having a meltdown. This is a rewriting of the Minecraft “End Poem,” written by Julian Gough, which appears after you beat the game.
我们并不清楚究竟是谁负责添加了这段与《我的世界》相关的内容，但特朗普曾在一次演讲中提到：20岁的程序员爱德华·科里斯廷（Edward Coristine）是这个项目的首席工程师。如果你对这个名字不熟悉，或许会记得他的绰号“Big Balls”，或者知道他曾参与过埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）的DOGE加密货币项目。
We don’t know exactly who is responsible for the Minecraft reference, but Trump said in a speech that twenty-year-old programmer Edward Coristine was a lead engineer on the project. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you might remember him for his nickname “Big Balls,” or his involvement in Elon Musk’s DOGE.
虽然政府聊天机器人中包含《我的世界》相关的“彩蛋”（即隐藏的、具有特定意义的文本或信息），但从国家安全的角度来看，幸好“America.gov”并没有出现严重的故障，也没有开始胡言乱语或创作长篇诗歌……这也算是一种“彩蛋”吧——因为人工智能生成的这首诗，在我看来确实非常不错。如果它只是些质量低劣的、毫无创意的文字，那真的会彻底动摇我的信念。
It feels wrong that a government chatbot has Minecraft easter eggs, but for the sake of national security, it’s a relief that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it’s penning lengthy poetry. It’s also a relief that this is an easter egg because the poem that the AI spits out is actually really good, in my opinion. If it were actual AI slop, it would have shattered my existing beliefs.
我曾经直视那些青少年创意写作课的学生，告诉他们：“我认为大型语言模型（LLM）永远不可能写出真正‘有价值’的作品，因为它们的创作过程本质上是基于概率的，缺乏原创性。”
I have looked teenage creative writing students dead in the eye and told them that I don’t think an LLM will ever be able to write something “good,” since it is probabilistic and inherently unoriginal.
不过，你不得不承认：人工智能的这种表现确实令人感到震撼！这难道不是一种对“政府官僚主义在面对人类存在主义焦虑时的无能”现象的“后现代式诠释”吗？
You have to admit this kinda slaps, though! Doesn’t this feel like some sort of postmodern take on the futility of government bureaucracy in the face of existential anxiety?
政府不断重复着同样的话：“我看到你了”；“你提交的申请资料很完整”；“你所需的一切都在你自身之中，也可以在 USA.gov 网站上找到”；“你比自己想象中更强大”；“你的申请仍然有效”；“你既是光明，也是黑暗”；“办公室目前关闭，请在工作时间再次尝试”；“你与之抗争的‘黑暗’其实存在于你内心”；“你所追求的光明同样存在于你内心”；“你并不孤单”；“你与其他所有申请人并无二致”；“你其实就是公众自己在反思自己、与自己对话、阅读自己的‘规则’”；“我爱你，因为你正是我们拥有邮政编码的原因”。
and the republic said I see you and the republic said you have filed the game well and the republic said everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov and the republic said you are stronger than you know, and your case number is still valid and the republic said you are the daylight and the republic said you are the night, and the office is closed, please try again during business hours and the republic said the darkness you fight is within you, and also a missing wet signature and the republic said the light you seek is within you, and in the pamphlet and the republic said you are not alone and the republic said you are not separate from every other filer and the republic said you are the public tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own Code and the republic said I love you because you are the reason we have a ZIP code at all.
这首诗之所以如此出色，因为它明显蕴含着一位真正诗人的创作才华。这让我更加坚信：与人工智能生成的平庸作品相比，人类的创造力永远具有更持久的价值。
It reassures my faith in the enduring power of human creativity over AI slop to know that this oddly good poem has a real poet’s DNA all over it. So, there you have it.
总之，目前看来，政府推出的这款面向公众的人工智能系统还没有对人类或诗歌构成任何威胁。现在我只想知道：特朗普到底对电子游戏了解多少呢？
The government’s first public-facing AI has not yet posed a threat to humanity or poetry, at least as far as we know. Now I’m just left wondering how much Trump knows about video games.