这位民主社会主义市长曾表示，人工智能应该在联邦层面进行监管。他的一些同僚则有不同的想法。
The democratic socialist mayor has said artificial intelligence should be regulated at the federal level. Some of his colleagues have other ideas.
纽约——周一，一位杰出的纽约市政治人物在人工智能辩论中成为焦点——但并不是市长佐赫兰·曼达尼（Zohran Mamdani）。
NEW YORK — A prominent New York City politician took centerstage in the AI debate Monday — and it wasn’t Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
在这次备受期待的听证会上，充斥着各种末日般的预测，市议会议长朱莉·门宁（Julie Menin）对通过视频出席会议的四家领先人工智能公司的代表进行了严厉质询。这位议员在长达数小时的会议结束后，成为了市政厅的主要人工智能反对派。"令人失望的是，他们似乎无法回答一些最基本、最粗浅的问题：他们无法量化灾难性事件的风险。
In a much anticipated hearing that featured a litany of dystopian predictions, City Council Speaker Julie Menin grilled representatives from four leading AI firms who appeared virtually before the 51-member legislative body.
他们无法回答是否会发布任何未通过内部安全测试或第三方验证测试的模型，"门宁对记者说。"他们无法回答自己是否有巨灾保险，也无法回答如果发生灾难性破坏、死亡、受伤等情况，公司是否应该承担责任。"
The lawmaker emerged from the marathon session as City Hall’s chief AI antagonist.
尽管曼达尼已经证明了自己有能力抓住并保持公众对时代精神议题（如负担能力、住房和加沙问题）的关注，但他却将人工智能监管的聚光灯让给了门宁，尽管对这门新兴技术的担忧正在成为当下最具决定性的政治议题。这为他的主要政治对手之一——其职责本身就是对行政部门进行制衡——提供了动力，让她得以在一个引起选民强烈共鸣的议题上提升自己的知名度。
“It’s disappointing that they can’t seem to answer some of the most basic, rudimentary questions: They can’t quantify what the risk is of a cataclysmic event. They can’t answer the question of whether or not they would release any of their models that failed an internal safety test or third-party validation test,” Menin told reporters. “They couldn’t answer if they even have catastrophic insurance [and] they couldn’t answer if the company should be liable if there’s catastrophic damage, death, injury, etc.” While Mamdani has proven his ability to seize and hold the spotlight with zeitgeist-y issues — think affordability, housing and Gaza — he has ceded the spotlight on AI regulation to Menin, even as concerns over the emerging technology are becoming the defining political issue of the moment. That has given one of his chief political rivals, whose very job is designed as a check on the executive branch, fuel to boost her profile on an issue that resonates deeply with voters.