阿什利的观点：本周在与唐纳德·特朗普总统及政府高级官员会面并达成一项关于人工智能的“道德约束”协议后，科技行业在华盛顿面临着微妙的阻力。
Ashley’s view The tech industry is facing strange headwinds in Washington after meeting with President Donald Trump and senior administration officials this week andg a “morally binding” accord on AI.
对于所有参与的公司而言，此次与特朗普的会面总体上是成功的。但现在，这些公司必须在维持与总统的关系，同时安抚明年极有可能控制国会两院的民主党人之间寻求平衡。更不用说，在选民对人工智能的焦虑情绪推动下，即将到来的中期选举可能会产生巨大的影响，并考验这些公司权力的边界。
The meeting with Trump was largely successful for all of the companies involved. But now these same firms have to navigate maintaining ties with the president while placating Democrats who could very well control both houses of Congress next year. That’s not to mention what could be a massively consequential midterm election, fueled by AI anxiety among voters, that could test the bounds of their power.
OpenAI全球事务首席官克里斯·勒汉（Chris Lehane）在接受Semafor采访时，谈到了本周由包括OpenAI总裁格雷格·布罗克曼（Greg Brockman）在内的几家顶级公司领导人与特朗普签署的关于“超级智能”的白宫新协议。他表示：“各家公司将不得不更具体地说明他们将如何落实这一协议。”
“Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,” Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, told Semafor about the new White House accord on “Super Intelligence” signed by the leaders of several top firms and Trump this week, including OpenAI President Greg Brockman.
“我们当然是抱着这样的信念来处理此事的……确保人们感受到我们确实在安全地构建技术并负责任地进行部署，这也符合我们自身的利益，”勒汉说道。他补充称，OpenAI对某些州级人工智能法案的支持及其对联邦法案的期望将保持不变。
“We’ve certainly approached this believing … it’s also in our self-interest to make sure that people feel that we are actually building things safely and deploying responsibly,” Lehane said, adding that OpenAI’s support for certain state-level AI bills and its hopes for a federal bill will remain the same.
他补充道：“这几乎要么是一种民主的市场力量，要么就是实际的市场力量本身。就像如果你在制造汽车，你肯定会确保汽车是安全的，否则无论是否有监管，人们都不会购买你的汽车。”
“That’s almost either a democratic market force, or the actual market forces themselves. Like, if you’re making cars, you’re going to want to make sure the cars are safe, or people aren’t going to buy your cars, whether there are regulations or not,” he added.
更多信息：在立法者离开华盛顿专注于11月大选前的竞选活动之前，人工智能公司仍在国会山进行积极讨论。一位科技行业消息人士和一位从事人工智能政策的消息人士告诉Semafor，他们正试图影响即将出台的法案，并确定在哪些方面能与立法者达成共识。
Know More Before lawmakers departed Washington to focus on campaigning ahead of the November elections, AI companies were still in active discussions on Capitol Hill. They’re trying to influence forthcoming bills and determine where they can find consensus with lawmakers, a tech industry source and a source who works on AI policy told Semafor.
企业们深知：这次中期选举很可能会让民主党控制众议院，甚至参议院；这样一来，推动人工智能相关立法的势头将会增强，同时这些企业的运营也会受到更严格的审查，尤其是那些与特朗普政府有过关联的公司。一位人工智能政策专家对 Semafor 表示：“人们对这些问题的认识越来越深入，很快就会有一些比现有法案好得多的新提案被提出来。”
Companies know that the midterms are likely to mean a Democratic-run House and possibly a Democratic-run Senate, and with that will come more momentum to pass AI legislation — and likely more scrutiny of their operations, particularly for firms that have demonstrated ties with the Trump administration. “There’s a world where people are smarter and smarter about these issues, and bills are going to be introduced imminently that are much better than what we’ve seen,” the AI policy source told Semafor.
这位科技行业专家指出：“考虑到选举结果，立法自然会成为下一步的重点行动方向，因为公众以及两党许多议员都希望看到相关问题的解决。”
After the election, legislating is an obvious place to go, given the public and many lawmakers in both parties want to see something done, the tech industry source told Semafor.
虽然与特朗普政府执政初期（当时政府试图禁止各州制定人工智能相关法案）相比，联邦层面在人工智能政策上的进展较为缓慢，但仍在逐步推进中。美国联邦贸易委员会（FTC）也启动了自己的调查；虽然这项调查可能不会带来太多实质性的成果，但它至少表明政府愿意利用现有法律来惩处那些涉嫌损害消费者利益的公司。
Considering where the Trump administration was a year ago — that is, attempting to ban state-level AI bills — progress toward federal AI policy is slow, but it’s inching forward, the tech industry source said. The FTC also kicked off its own AI inquiry, which may not yield much in the end, but nevertheless represents a signal from the administration that regulators are prepared to use existing laws to go after any companies that they suspect have hurt consumers.
不过，白宫在人工智能问题上的立场不太可能发生根本性改变，特朗普在其任期结束前仍将是该领域最重要的决策者。那些推动数据中心扩张以及制定有利于科技产业发展的法律的组织拥有大量资金和资源，同时它们自身也与人工智能和科技企业存在复杂的财务关联。
Still, the White House’s pro-AI posture is unlikely to fundamentally change, and Trump will remain the most important voice on it until the end of his term. Groups that are pushing for data center expansion and industry-friendly laws have plenty of money and resources, plus their own complicated financial ties to the AI and tech companies themselves.
自那场“超现实”的人工智能峰会以来，Anthropic 公司经历了最大的动荡：就在联邦法院维持 Pentagon 将其列为“供应链风险企业”的裁决几天后，其首席执行官 Dario Amodei 还在白宫与特朗普共进了晚餐。
Anthropic may be experiencing the most whiplash since the surreal AI summit: Days after a federal court upheld its designation by the Pentagon as a supply chain risk, CEO Dario Amodei dined with Trump at the White House.
美国政府多次将 Anthropic 描述为一个支持人工智能发展的组织，称这个组织属于“极端激进”的阵营，认为其成员过于关注人工智能的潜在危害，并试图通过制造恐慌来达到某种目的。
The administration has repeatedly painted Anthropic as the face of a pro-AI safety movement that is “woke” and composed of “doomers” — too focused on AI’s harms and trying to gin up fear for ulterior motives.
“我认为，他们会试着在这根钢丝上走两年，”一名负责人工智能政策的人士告诉Semafor。“他们正处在一个微妙的位置。[国防部副部长]埃米尔·迈克尔讨厌你，每天都在推特上谈论你。尽管如此，政府似乎仍觉得你对他们的运作不可或缺。”Anthropic政策负责人莎拉·赫克在白宫会面后于X发帖：“你不能退居第二位来确保安全。”她分享了一段视频片段，画面中阿莫代伊为该协议鼓掌，同时表示人工智能仍面临非常现实的风险，以及企业应如何应对这些风险，仍在讨论之中。
“I think they’re going to try to walk this tightrope for two years,” the person who works on AI policy told Semafor. “They’re in a weird place. [Undersecretary of Defense] Emil Michael hates you, and is tweeting about you every day. Nonetheless, the government seems to find you indispensable to their operations.”Sarah Heck, a policy lead at Anthropic, posted on X following the White House meeting: “You can’t do safety from second place.”She shared a video clip of Amodei applauding the accord while saying AI still has very real risks and how companies address them is still under discussion.
周四，赫克补充道：“需要明确的是，我这里说的是美国及其盟友：如果美国不能处于领先地位，我们就无法确保人工智能得到安全开发。”值得注意的是，据Semafor独家披露，后来成为特朗普与人工智能行业达成协议的构想，源自Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格与众议院议长迈克·约翰逊之间的一次谈话。
On Thursday, Heck added: “To be clear, I’m talking about the US and its allies here: We can’t ensure AI is developed safely unless the US is in the lead.”Notable The idea for what became Trump’s pact with the AI industry came from a conversation between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson, Semafor scooped.