周二，特朗普在华盛顿为联邦政府介绍了新的人工智能技术。这一举动让他意识到自己一直以来对公众对人工智能态度的误解：特朗普不仅与公众日益增长的反感与担忧脱节，他对人工智能行业的盲目支持也表明他已经失去了与那些认为现代经济无法为他们带来好处的选民的联系。特朗普当初之所以能够掌权，是因为他声称自己理解这些选民，并将一种保守的、怀旧的情绪作为政治工具来利用；然而，他在人工智能问题上的这种根本性转变可能会对他的政治事业造成破坏。
unveil new artificial intelligence features for the federal government in Washington on Tuesday brought an epiphany about his ongoing misread of the public’s attitudes toward AI Trump is not just out of touch with growing public resentment and anxiety about the technology. His mindless boosterism of the industry also suggests he has lost his connection with voters who don’t believe the modern economy works for them. Trump rose to power by claiming to understand those voters and by weaponizing a reactionary nostalgia as a political tool — but his philosophical about-face when it comes to AI could contribute to the undoing of his movement.
周二在华盛顿的演讲中，特朗普以一个资本主义未来主义者的乐观态度谈论人工智能。他承诺：“我永远不会阻碍这项比工业革命还要重要的技术的发展。”他的经济理念更像是艾茵·兰德（Ayn Rand）的观点，而非唐纳德·特朗普本人的观点；他还劝诫人们不要对在人工智能上的巨额投资感到担忧，因为这些投资会阻碍资本的积累与经济的进步。
In Washington on Tuesday, Trump spoke about AI with the soaring optimism of a capitalist futurist. “I will never stifle the growth of technology that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution,” he pledged. He then articulated an economic philosophy that sounded more Ayn Rand
“我们绝不接受平庸或停滞，尤其是在政府领域——因为美国人相信卓越与持续进步。我们必须不断进步。如果我们不进步，其他人也会进步，最终会超越我们。我们不会屈服于对技术可能带来的影响的恐惧……我们永远不会放弃探索新前沿的勇气，也不会回避任何挑战。我们会继续前进，创造一个比以往任何时候都更伟大、更美好、更快速、更智能的世界。”
than Donald Trump — and counseled against apprehension about colossal investment in AI lest it get in the way of implied capital-p Progress:
特朗普的演讲反映出他对人工智能近乎宗教般的信仰——他认为人工智能是通往更美好生活的保障；他敦促同胞们与他一起勇敢地迈出这一步。他认为，任何对人工智能的排斥或犹豫都可能带来灾难性的后果。此外，他还坚信人工智能行业能够“自我监管”，因此他认为自己“无需担心”人工智能会带来负面影响。
We do not accept mediocrity or stagnation, especially in government, because Americans believe in excellence and constant improvement. We have to constantly improve. If we don’t improve, then everyone’s going to catch us because they’re going to improve.
关于失控的人工智能，以及该技术唯一需要的护栏是“一位强大且聪明（高智商！）的总统”，很明显，特朗普要么认为大规模且不受监管的人工智能行业没有任何弊端，要么认为这些弊端与收益相比微不足道。
We do not surrender to fears about what technologies will do to us. … We never retreat from a frontier.
美国公众并不认同这一观点。近几个月来的多项民意调查显示，绝大多数美国人对人工智能的发展速度感到焦虑，对它在日常生活中的应用感到担忧，对它可能导致自己或家人失业感到不安，并担心它可能会毁灭人类。在其中一些民调中，持不满态度的共和党人占了多数或很大比例。特朗普的经济敏感度已从怀旧转向了未来主义。
We never shrink from a challenge. We push forward and build a world that is bigger, better, faster and smarter than it has ever been before. Trump’s speech reflects an almost religious faith in AI as a guarantor of a better life — and he counsels his compatriots to take the leap of faith with him. He posits that anything less than a full embrace of AI could be catastrophic.
特朗普对这些担忧的排斥令人震惊，因为他的政治崛起在很大程度上建立在一种不同寻常的敏锐度之上，即他关注到许多人——尤其是保守派白人——对现代经济感到焦虑并认为自己受到了欺骗。而他提出的解决方案并非关于创新，通常集中在向他的基本盘承诺“时光倒流”。
Taken alongside his beliefs that the AI industry can be trusted to“self-police,”that he doesn’t need to “worry”
特朗普在2016年共和党初选中异军突起，部分原因在于他拒绝了关于自由贸易对美国公众绝对有利的两党共识。通过指责《北美自由贸易协定》等贸易协定对工人不利，他打破了长期服务于大企业的正统观念，即全球化和外包对每个人都有无可争议的好处，从而在竞争中脱颖而出。他承诺以老派的经济民族主义和关税作为解决就业流失、工资停滞以及对国际互联经济普遍不安的方案。因此，特朗普在那些受贸易冲击影响尤为严重的美国地区选民中表现出色，也就不足为奇了。
about out-of-control AI and that the only guardrail needed for the technology is “a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” it’s clear that Trump either thinks there aren’t any downsides to a massive and unregulated AI sector, or that those downsides are negligible compared to the upsides. The American public doesn’t share that view. Poll after poll in recent months has found that a large majority of Americans are anxious about the pace of AI development concerned about its use in daily life, are uneasy that it could put them or someone in their household out of work and are worried that it could destroy humanity In a number of these polls, a plurality or a majority of Republicans are among those who are discontented with the direction of things. Trump’s economic sensibilities have gone from nostalgist to futurist.
特朗普“与日益感到恐惧的美国人民严重脱节”：里克霍夫（Rieckhoff），2026年9月30日特朗普将移民问题视为对美国工人的威胁，但这一观点缺乏事实依据；相比之下，他的一些贸易政策主张至少还有部分证据支持。尽管如此，这一论调仍然重新唤起了右翼关于经济问题的陈旧观点，并借助“怀旧情绪”来表达其政治主张。
Trump’s rejection of those concerns is striking given that his political rise was predicated in no small part on an unusually articulated attentiveness to how many people — particularly conservative white Americans — felt anxious about and cheated by the modern economy. And his fixes were not about innovation, but typically centered on a promise to turn the clock back for the people who formed his base.
他声称：“如果移民没有‘抢走你们的工作’，你们本应拥有更多机会和更高的工资。”他还谎称无证移民在使用医疗保险（Medicare）和社会安全福利（Social Security），并错误地表示政府因他们的存在而面临财政压力。他提出的解决方案是驱逐大部分现有的移民，并阻止更多移民进入美国。特朗普的论点完全脱离现实，但却利用了右翼对国家日益多元化的不满情绪，将种族仇恨转化为表达其经济政策的工具。
Trump exploded in the Republican primaries in 2016 partly because he rejected the bipartisan consensus on free trade as an unalloyed good for the American public. By calling out trade agreements like NAFTA as a bad deal for workers, he stood out from the competition by rejecting the orthodoxy that had long served Big Business: that globalization and outsourcing were inarguably good for everyone. He promised old-school economic nationalism and tariffs as a solution to job displacement, suppressed wages and general unease about an internationally connected economy. It wasn’t surprising, then, that Trump performed particularly well among voters from regions of the U.S. hit particularly hard by trade shocks.
此外，特朗普还阻挠了绿色经济的发展（即那些旨在推动可持续能源发展的政策），反而加大了对化石燃料的投资力度；他对能源行业的未来视而不见，沉浸在“化石燃料产业可以永远持续繁荣”的幻想之中，同时还认为煤炭工人永远不需要重新接受培训以从事其他工作。
Trump ‘dangerously out of touch with the American people’ who are ‘scared’: Rieckhoff September 30, 2026 Trump’s fixation on immigration as bad for American workers isn’t supported by evidence the way that at least some of his trade claims were, but even so, it revived a right-wing trope about the economy and hinged on a type of nostalgia politics.
特朗普提出了针对经济问题的倒退性政策，承诺要重现美国所谓的“黄金时代”。他的言论反映出他对现代全球化经济的强烈不满，并试图用过时的、带有种族歧视色彩的解决方案来应对这些问题（同时却为大型企业和富人提供了有利的税收与监管环境）。然而，在人工智能（AI）领域，尽管经济学家和AI行业本身不断警告其可能带来的就业流失、工资下降以及各种社会与安全问题，特朗普却对此毫不在意。
If immigrants weren’t“taking your jobs,” he claimed, then you’d have more opportunities and better wages. He has lied about undocumented immigrants using Medicare and Social Security and falsely claimed the government was financially strained because of them. The solution, he said, was to expel many of the immigrants who were here and to keep other immigrants out.
他的这种态度让人联想到那些他曾经批评的、不理解民众对全球化不满情绪的保守派共和党人。在推广AI技术的过程中，他必然会失去一些曾经信任他的选民——即使他的那些政策其实毫无实际效果（或者说，只是空洞的承诺罢了）。
Trump’s reasoning wasn’t grounded in reality, but it played on right-wing discontent over the ways the country was becoming more diverse and channeled racial resentment as a way to express an economic idea. Trump has also blocked the green economy taken measures to increase national investment in fossil fuels and buried his head in the sand about the real future of energy — all to indulge in the fantasy that major fossil fuel industries could be revived endlessly and that no coal worker would ever have to retrain for other work.
目前还不清楚究竟是什么导致了特朗普这种行为上的转变。在过去几年里，特朗普似乎也曾承认AI技术可能具有“威胁性”。造成这种转变的原因可能有以下几点：
With backward-looking proposals on the economy, Trump promised to restore an imagined golden age in America. His rhetoric has relied on an alertness to discomfort with the modern globalized economy — and promised to use retrograde, racialized solutions to deal with it. (All while gifting giant corporations and the rich with a favorable tax and regulatory environment.) But when it comes to AI, despite what economists and the AI industry itself constantly point out, Trump exhibits no concern about job displacement, suppressed wages or various other social or security costs posed by advanced AI.
- 科技行业提供的巨额资金支持，以及他与该行业巨头之间的密切关系；
Trump’s evangelism makes him sound oddly like the old-school Republican establishment he used to pan for not understanding popular discontent with globalization. And in the process of promoting the technology, he was bound to alienate some of the voters who had trusted him — even if his prescriptions were always snake oil.
- 他认为AI的发展是维持美国经济的唯一动力；
It’s not exactly clear what explains Trump’s inversion of his usual instincts. In past years, Trump seem to acknowledge that AI could be “scary
- 他个人在AI领域进行了投资；
” A number of things could be at play: Huge financial support from the tech industry and close relationships with its titans.
- 他误以为美国已经与中国陷入了AI技术的竞争之中；
A belief that AI growth is the only thing keeping the economy going. Personal investments in AI.
- 他长期将自己与普通美国人隔离开来，只生活在华盛顿或海湖庄园的“小圈子里”。
A belief that the U.S. is now locked in an AI technology race with China. Total social isolation from everyday Americans while he’s holed up in his bubbles in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago.
无论原因是什么，随着AI技术逐渐成为国家讨论的焦点以及人们对其未来影响的关注，特朗普的经济观念已经从怀旧主义转变为未来主义。希望那些曾被他的言论蒙骗、以为他在为自己着想的人能够看清这个骗局的本质。
Whatever the reason, Trump’s economic sensibilities have gone from nostalgist to futurist as AI dominates the national conversation and the perceived future of the economy. Hopefully this will prompt some of the people he duped into thinking he was looking out for them to catch on to the whole scam.
特朗普并没有意识到：正是他过去所坚持的经济理念（那些让他成为权力人物的理念），如今正在被他自己抛弃。
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