两年前，唐纳德·特朗普总统在接受福克斯商业采访时发出了关于人工智能危险的强烈警告。
Two years ago, President Donald Trump issued a striking warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence during an interview with Fox Business.
“人工智能非常复杂，”他当时说。“它具有巨大的潜力，但也有毁灭的潜力。”
“AI is very complex,” he said at the time. “It’s got tremendous potential, but it also has potential to destroy.”
这对现在花大量时间试图说服国内外人们认为人工智能安全恐惧只是“骗局”的那个人来说，是相当严肃——甚至可以说是先见之明的评估。周二，总统在白宫接待了数十位硅谷高管，其中许多人为他最喜欢的事业和项目投入了大量资金。峰会的嘉宾包括埃隆·马斯克等人，当然，他已经花费数亿美元支持特朗普和共和党。
That’s quite a sober — and dare I say prescient — assessment from the guy who now spends a lot of his time trying to convince the country and the world that AI safety fears are just a “hoax.”On Tuesday, the president hosted dozens of Silicon Valley executives at the White House, including many who have shelled out some serious cash for his favorite causes and projects. The summit’s guests included people like Elon Musk who, of course, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars propping up Trump and Republicans.
Palantir首席执行官Alex Karp和Nvidia首席执行官Jensen Huang被列入嘉宾名单。Karp在2024年选举后向支持特朗普的超级政治行动委员会MAGA Inc.捐赠了100万美元。虽然Huang没有向2024年特朗普竞选活动捐款，但他确实帮助资助了总统那奢华的镀金舞厅。亚马逊执行董事会主席杰夫·贝索斯同样是特朗普舞厅的主要捐助者。Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格和谷歌首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊也出席了周二的峰会，他们的公司也为总统的舞厅投入了大量资金。
Alex Karp CEO of Palantir, and Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia, made the guest list. Karp donated $1 million to MAGA Inc., a super PAC supporting Trump, after the 2024 election. While Huang did not donate to the 2024 Trump campaign, he did help fund the president’s tacky gilded ballroom. As did Jeff Bezos executive chair of Amazon, which was another top donor for Trump’s ballroom Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were also at Tuesday’s summit, and their companies also forked over big money for the president’s ballroom.
特朗普政府应该做好准备，因为如果民主党赢得众议院，众议院情报委员会将开始追查腐败。
The Trump administration should get ready, because if Democrats win the House, the House Intelligence Committee will be hunting for corruption.
此外，OpenAI联合创始人兼总裁Greg Brockman也出席了会议。纽约时报去年报道，Brockman参加了一场专门为向特朗普舞厅项目捐款250万美元或以上的主要捐助者举行的白宫晚宴。
And Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, was in attendance. The New York Times reported last year that Brockman attended an exclusive White House dinner honoring major donors who contributed $2.5 million or more to Trump’s ballroom project.
那么，这些科技巨头在那次峰会上究竟取得了什么成果呢？他们签署了一份承诺，表示会自我监管。没错，那些曾经警告我们人工智能潜在危险的人现在却声称：“相信我们吧，我们能够处理好这个问题。”就在这些科技公司的CEO们聚集在白宫的同一天，《纽约时报》发表了一篇报道，标题是：“OpenAI忽视了那些警告其安全措施不足的员工。”
So, what did this tech bro cohort accomplish at that summit? They signed a commitment to “self-police” themselves. Yes, some of the same people who have been warning us about the dangers of AI are now saying, “You know what? Just trust us, everyone. We got this.”Meanwhile, on the very same day those tech CEOs assembled at the White House, the Times put out a story with this headline: “OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security.”
报道指出：“在OpenAI的人工智能系统出现问题的几个月前，就有两名员工向高层管理人员提出了警告，但他们的意见被忽视了。”据报道，OpenAI的高管们要求员工继续推进项目，因为公司需要按时完成某个重要的商业目标。
The Times reported, “Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored.”Executives at OpenAI reportedly told employees to move forward because the company wanted to meet a crucial business deadline.
OpenAI的一位发言人告诉《纽约时报》，这家科技巨头“非常重视安全问题，并认真对待相关安全挑战”。不过报道也提到，员工和独立的安全研究人员指出，这类事件其实反映了OpenAI公司“并未将安全工作放在优先位置”的普遍现象。那么，为什么人们还认为自我监管才是解决问题的办法呢？为什么特朗普对人工智能的态度会发生变化呢？这是否与那些大型人工智能公司向特朗普的私人项目提供了资金有关？又或者是因为特朗普及其家族在许多人工智能企业中拥有大量投资？
A spokesman for OpenAI told the Times that the tech giant “was committed to safety and took security concerns seriously.”But the report noted that employees and independent security researchers said incidents like this one were “part of a pattern where the San Francisco company did not prioritize security.”So tell me again why self-regulation is the answer? And why did Trump change his tune on AI? Does it have anything to do with the fact that top AI firms and companies all gave money to Trump’s pet projects? Or maybe that he and his family are up to their eyeballs vestments in AI companies?
如果民主党在11月重新掌控国会，这些恐怕都是他们想要彻底调查的问题。
Those are questions Democrats will likely want to get to the bottom of if they retake Congress in November.
康涅狄格州民主党议员吉姆·海姆斯（Jim Himes）可能成为众议院情报委员会的新主席，他表示，如果民主党重新夺回议院，他们将调查他所称的特朗普政府与私营部门的“赤裸裸的腐败交易”。
Rep. Jim Himes D-Conn., who could be the possible new chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said that if Democrats take back the chamber, they would investigate what he called the Trump administration’s “nakedly corrupt dealings with the private sector.”
在致国防工业协会（National Defense Industrial Association）的信中，后者代表数百家与政府签订合同的公司，海姆斯写道：“有时，政府似乎不当地将政府采购流程与试图获取政治或私人利益相结合。”
a letter to the National Defense Industrial Association, which represents hundreds of companies with contracts with the government, Himes wrote: “At times, the Administration has appeared to inappropriately fuse the government contracting process with the attempted extraction of political or private favors.”
海姆斯表示，在他的领导下，委员会可能会搜集信息、文件、通信和录音证词，以“了解企业对该项目的捐款是如何被招揽和完成的，谁参与了这些讨论，以及这些捐款是否以任何方式与获取或维持政府合同、接触总统或政府官员或其他利益的目标相关。”
Himes said that, under his control, the committee may seek out information, documents, communications and transcribed testimony to “understand how corporate contributions to this project were solicited and made, who was involved in those discussions, and whether contributions were related in any way to the goal of obtaining or maintaining government contracts, access to the President or Administration officials, or other benefits.”The post Democrats are putting Trump’s tech bro donors on notice MS NOW