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特朗普将自己的权力与人工智能交织在一起唐纳德·特朗普在过去一周采取了一系列举措，清楚地表明他的权力正在成为人工智能的代名词。
Trump entwines his power with AI Donald Trump made a series of moves over the past week that make it clear his power is becoming synonymous with artificial intelligence.
白宫、五角大楼、美国情报机构和人工智能公司之间新的紧密联盟对依赖美国人工智能的政府和公司（尤其是欧洲的政府和公司）构成了不祥的预兆。
The new tight alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies and AI companies loom ominously over governments and companies, particularly in Europe, that rely on American AI.
上周二，特朗普和六位人工智能首席执行官签署了一项他所谓的“具有道德约束力”的协议，对人工智能进行控制。这项模糊的协议规定了特朗普所谓的“巨大自我监管”的框架，重申了他的观点，即人工智能公司可以充当自己的守望者。埃隆·马斯克、马克·扎克伯格·黄詹森和达里奥·阿蒙迪签署了协议。
Last Tuesday, Trump and six AI CEOs signed what he called a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. The vague agreement stipulates a framework for what Trump called “tremendous self-policing”, reiterating his point that AI companies can act as their own watchmen. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Jensen Huang, and Dario Amodei signed.
据塞马福报道，扎克伯格亲自指导了该协议的起草。据报道，该协议源于Meta首席执行官和众议院议长迈克约翰逊在习近平的美国国宴上的对话，该晚宴在科技公司首席执行官秘密会议之前举行。据Semafor报道，扎克伯格在会议召开前分发了一份协议草案，黄对此表示支持。
Zuckerberg hand-guided the writing of that agreement, Semafor reported. The pact reportedly arose from a conversation between the Meta CEO and House speaker Mike Johnson at the US state dinner for Xi Jinping, which preceded the conclave of the tech CEOs. Zuckerberg circulated a draft of the agreement in advance of the convening, and Huang threw his support behind it, per Semafor.
科技高管在白宫用餐讨好总统是一回事;让他们起草行政命令条款则完全是另一回事。硅谷的首席执行官们正在撰写带有白宫抬头的合同，以巩固他们的利益和权力。
It is one thing for tech executives to dine at the White House to curry favor with the president; it is like entirely another to have them draft the terms of executive orders. Silicon Valley’s CEOs are writing contracts that bear the White House letterhead, entrenching their interests and their power.
特朗普说：“在某种程度上，这几乎就像一部宪法，世界上最大的人签署了它，我作为总统签署了它，这确实是一种保护形式。”众所周知，宪法具有法律约束力，而扎克伯格和特朗普的协议则不然。
“It’s almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection,” Trump said. Famously, constitutions are legally binding, which Zuckerberg and Trump’s agreement is not.
总统还下令政府文件将任何提及“人工智能”改为“超级智能”。他们对他的品牌重塑有多忠诚？
The president also decreed that government documents change any reference “artificial intelligence” as “super intelligence”. How loyal will they be to his rebrand?
至少有一个人立即默认了：马斯克复制了更名，将其公司一家子公司的名称从SpaceXAI改为SpaceXSI。这一变化恰逢这位多位首席执行官在总督的爆炸性任期结束一年多后重新进入政府工作之际。周四，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯任命马斯克加入一个特别工作组，与帕尔默·拉基和埃米尔·迈克尔一起研究战争的未来，该工作组被称为子午线计划。这三人将在120天内发布一份报告，其中就如何实现“下一代战场上的绝对技术主导地位”（用赫格塞斯的话来说）提出公开建议。
At least one acquiesced immediately: Musk copied the renaming by changing the name of one of his company’s subsidiaries from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. The change coincided with the multi-CEO’s re-entry into government work more than a year after his explosive term at Doge ended. On Thursday, defense secretary Pete Hegseth named Musk to a taskforce to study the future of warfare alongside Palmer Luckey and Emil Michael, dubbed Project Meridian. The trio of men will release a report in 120 days with public recommendations on how to achieve “absolute technological dominance on the next-generation battlefield”, in the words of Hegseth.
周末，总统宣布他已任命国家情报总监杰伊·克莱顿（Jay Clayton）为其政府的人工智能沙皇。
Over the weekend, the president announced that he had appointed Jay Clayton, director of national intelligence, as the AI czar of his administration.
特朗普的第一位人工智能沙皇是硅谷内部人士。大卫·萨克斯（David Sacks）是一位风险投资家，在担任政府特殊雇员期间倡导增长和放松管制。在与白宫合作期间，他在多家人工智能公司中拥有直接的财务股份，这表明他的最终目标是积累更大的财富。(He他最近因支持人工智能加速主义而闻名，这是与预言灭绝的人存员工“末日论”相反的哲学阵营。）
Trump’s first AI czar was a Silicon Valley insider. David Sacks is a venture capitalist who championed growth and deregulation during his term as a special government employee. He maintained direct financial stakes in multiple AI companies while working with the White House, indicating his ultimate goal was to build a bigger fortune. (He’s made a name for himself recently championing AI accelerationism, the opposing philosophical camp to the “doomerism” of the Anthropic employees who prophesy extinction.)