随着中国公民在娱乐、育儿甚至农业建议等方面广泛采用人工智能技术，政府正加大力度设定使用限制。
China’s Push into A.I. Has Led to a Problem: Too Much Usage As citizens embrace the technology for entertainment, babysitting and even farming advice, the government is stepping up efforts to set limits.
当中国政府推动公民拥抱人工智能时，它正面临一个部分由其自身政策导致的问题：对技术的过度依赖。
As China’s government pushes its citizens to embrace artificial intelligence, it is confronting a problem partly of its own making: overreliance on the technology.
官方媒体报道了若干警示性案例：一位农民在向人工智能寻求建议后损失了25英亩的幼苗；一些儿童对聊天机器人产生了强烈依恋，甚至希望父母像机器人那样说话；以及人工智能生成的微短剧，其中角色看起来彼此雷同。
State media reports have featured stories that serve as cautionary tales: a farmer who lost 25 acres of seedlings after asking an A.I. for advice, children who have become so attached to chatbots that they want their parents to speak like them and A.I.-generated micro dramas with characters that look like carbon copies of one another.
这些案例及其他类似事件引发了中国的担忧：在急于在人工智能领域追赶美国的过程中，正遭遇由新技术引发的不良副作用。该技术被指责正在破坏人际关系，并剥夺人们的理性判断力。为了引导人们如何使用该技术，政府已出台新的法规和司法指南，以规范其使用及防止滥用。
These cases and others have raised concerns in China that as it rushes to catch up with the United States in A.I., it is running into adverse side effects created by the new technology, which is accused of undermining human relationships and depriving people of their better judgment. The government, seeking to direct how people use the technology, has responded by imposing new regulations and judicial guidelines on its use — and misuse.
分析人士指出，这一反应反映了执政的中国共产党试图在促进人工智能广泛应用的雄心与避免任何可能破坏社会秩序的因素之间寻求平衡。
The response reflects how the ruling Communist Party is trying to balance its ambitions to promote the widespread use of A.I. with a desire to avoid anything that might undermine social order, say analysts.
卡内基国际和平基金会中国人工智能计划研究员兼联合主任斯科特·辛格（Scott Singer）表示：“该党认识到，他们越是发展这项技术，就越需要应对随之而来的社会挑战。”辛格先生指出，该党对任何其认为技术正在以可能从根本上破坏社会稳定的方式变得更好的领域都尤为敏感。辛格表示，该党不仅对人工智能对人类关系造成的破坏敏感，也对人工智能威胁取代工人从而对就业市场造成的冲击保持高度警惕。
The party is “recognizing that the more they develop the technology, the more there’s going to be social challenges that they have to deal with,” said Scott Singer, a fellow and co-director of the China A.I. Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Where the party is sensitive is any area where they feel like the technology is getting better in a way that fundamentally could disrupt social stability.”Mr. Singer said the party is particularly sensitive to disruptions caused not only to human relationships but also the job market as A.I. threatens to replace workers.