美国财政部长玛丽亚·保拉·米哈雷斯·托雷斯（María Paula Mijares Torres）批评了人工智能领域知名人士关于该技术带来生存风险的警告，认为这些警告过于危言耸听且毫无帮助，同时呼吁该行业加强自我监管并寻找解决方案。
By María Paula Mijares Torres US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent criticized prominent artificial-intelligence figures’ warnings about existential risks posed by the technology as alarmist and unhelpful, calling on the industry to police itself and produce solutions.
“我们必须为各种情况做好准备，但人工智能领域某些人士仅发出警告却不提出解决方案，这根本算不上真正的领导力，”贝森特（Scott Bessent）在周六接受 Axios 采访时说道。
“I believe that we have to be prepared for every occasion, but on the other side, this alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” Bessent told Axios in an interview published Saturday.
今年 9 月，Anthropic PBC 的首席执行官达里奥·阿莫迪（Dario Amodei）、OpenAI 的首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼（Sam Altman）以及 xAI Corp. 的埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）曾呼吁该行业放缓最先进人工智能模型的研发速度，理由是这些技术对人类构成了日益严重的威胁。微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）也警告称，这项技术具有足以导致“数十亿人死亡”的威力，并呼吁政府加强监管。
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief Sam Altman and xAI Corp.’s Elon Musk in September called for the industry to slow development of its most advanced models, citing growing risks for humanity. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates also warned the technology is powerful enough to cause “a billion deaths” and called for government regulation.
唐纳德·特朗普总统几乎立即拒绝了这些呼吁，他将这些关于人工智能威胁人类的警告称为“骗局”，并坚称美国必须继续保持领先地位以超越中国。贝森特在采访中也表达了类似的观点：“我们不能让中国超越我们。”
President Donald Trump almost immediately rejected such calls, labeling the increasingly dire warnings about risk to humanity a “hoax” and insisting the US must push forward to maintain leadership over China — a sentiment that Bessent echoed in his remarks to Axios. “We cannot lose our lead to the Chinese,” he said.
“责任应该由实验室的研究人员承担，我对此表示赞同，”贝森特说，“我认为实验室的研究人员也已经认识到了这一点。”本周，特朗普在与包括马斯克、微软首席执行官萨蒂亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）、Meta Platforms Inc. 的马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）、Palantir Technologies Inc. 的首席执行官亚历克斯·卡普（Alex Karp）以及 OpenAI 总裁格雷格·布罗克曼（Greg Brockman）等业界高管会面时，明确否定了制定新的联邦监管措施的可能性。
“It is the people at the labs who have to accept responsibility, and I agree with that,” Bessent said. “I think the labs have come around to that way of thinking, too.”In a meeting with top industry executives including Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Palantir Technologies Inc. CEO Alex Karp and OpenAI President Greg Brockman. this week, the US president shot down the idea of new federal regulation.
“人们普遍认为应该加强自我监管；事实上，美国司法部、联邦调查局（FBI）等机构已经在实施相关监管措施，但自我监管同样非常重要，”特朗普对记者表示。他建议通过与硅谷企业的非正式协议，让第三方审计机构来评估人工智能系统的安全性。
“There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that, but the self-regulation is very important,” Trump told reporters at the time. He instead endorsed using outside auditors to assess AI systems’ safety in a non-binding accord with Silicon Valley leaders.
贝森特告诉Axios，美国还将与中国建立双边通报机制，以降低风险；该机制旨在减少不确定性、共享关于严重事件的预警信息，并帮助两国政府在人工智能问题升级或扩散到全球之前采取应对措施。
Bessent told Axios the US will also seek to mitigate risks with a bilateral notification system with China that aims to reduce uncertainty, share warnings about serious incidents and help both governments respond before an AI problem escalates or spreads globally.
9月份，美国财政部长与中国副总理何立峰在纽约会晤时讨论了人工智能问题，双方同意建立“中美人工智能对话机制”，以共同探讨这项技术的利弊。这次会晤发生在唐纳德·特朗普总统与习近平主席在华盛顿举行峰会之前，人工智能也是峰会讨论的议题之一。
The treasury secretary and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng discussed artificial intelligence during talks in New York in September, saying the two countries agreed to create a “US-China AI dialogue” to try to develop a common understanding of the technology’s benefits and threats. The two met shortly before the summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Washington, where AI was among the topics.
据中国新华社报道，习近平在访问美国期间对特朗普表示，中美可以继续就人工智能问题进行讨论，交流对该技术风险和益处的看法，并共同努力防止其被滥用。
Xi told Trump during his visit that China and the US can keep discussing AI, exchange views on its risks and benefits and work together to prevent its misuse, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
贝森特向Axios透露，他们讨论了诸如“不受控制的人工智能系统”以及非国家行为体利用人工智能进行网络攻击或生物威胁等风险。
Bessent told Axios they discussed risks such as uncontrolled AI agents and non-state actors using AI for cybersecurity or biological threats.
“中国的许多人工智能模型非常强大（虽然不如美国的模型强大），但它们的性能仍能达到美国模型的80%至90%；而且这些模型无需任何安全防护措施，就可以被进口到世界各地，”贝森特说道。
“A lot of these Chinese models are very powerful — not as powerful as the US models — but you get something that’s 80%, 90% as powerful, without guardrails that can be imported anywhere in the world,” Bessent told the outlet.
当被问及人工智能行业高管呼吁加强监管的问题时，贝森特回应道：“那么他们就应该放慢发展速度。”
Asked about AI industry executives’ calls for regulation, however, Bessent replied: “Well, then they should slow down.”
“我们希望人工智能技术能够安全、可控地发展，”他说，“实验室的研究人员必须为此承担责任，我完全同意这一观点。”
“We want safe acceleration,” he said. “It is the people at the labs who have to accept responsibility, and I agree with that.”