黄仁勋最近犯了一个短暂却透露了许多信息的口误。站在白宫，英伟达首席执行官将大语言模型称为“AI”，随后又迅速纠正自己：“超级智能。”这是因为唐纳德·特朗普总统已经决定，“人工智能”已过时，“超级智能”才是当下的说法。他在Truth Social上发帖称，任何继续称其为AI的人都是“敌人”。就像青少年模仿学校里最受欢迎的孩子的俚语一样，世界上一些最富有的人也跟风效仿。
Jensen Huang had a brief but revealing slip of the tongue recently. Standing at the White House, the Nvidia CEO referred to large-language models as “AI” — then quickly corrected himself: “super intelligence.”That’s because President Donald Trump has decided that “artificial intelligence” is out and “super intelligence” is in. He posted on Truth Social that anyone who keeps calling it AI is “THE ENEMY.”And, like teenagers picking up slang from the most popular kid in school, some of the richest people in the world played along.
埃隆·马斯克宣布他将把SpaceXAI更名为SpaceXSI。马克·扎克伯格早已将“超级智能”作为他为Meta制定的宏大愿景的核心。某处，一位高管可能正在告诉传播部门的员工，在下一次财报电话会议之前，先在Word文档里做个查找替换。
Elon Musk announced that he is changing the name of SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. Mark Zuckerberg had already made “superintelligence” the centerpiece of his grand vision for Meta. Somewhere, an executive is probably telling a communications staffer to do a search-and-replace in a Word file before the next earnings call.
人们自然会好奇为什么。难道成为亿万富翁——或者说，在马斯克的情况下，迈向万亿富翁的边缘——的意义不就在于，你不再需要讨好任何人吗？为什么要向一位总统低头，他竟想让你使用听起来像是基努·里维斯在1994年都会拒绝演的科幻剧本里的台词？
It’s natural to wonder why. Isn’t the point of becoming a billionaire — or, in Musk’s case, edging toward trillionaire territory — that you no longer have to flatter anybody? Why bow to a president who wants you to use a phrase that sounds like a sci-fi script Keanu Reeves would have turned down in 1994?
答案在于：虽然亿万富翁可能拥有比几乎任何人都多的钱，但他们中的许多人也有太多东西与联邦政府绑定在一起。
The answer is that billionaires may have more money than almost anyone else, but many also have a great deal riding on the federal government.
马斯克及其公司据《华盛顿邮报》调查，已获得至少380亿美元的政府合同、贷款、补贴和税收抵免，其中SpaceX单独从太空部队业务中就获得了数十亿美元。英伟达与能源部合作，打造其目前规模最大的AI超级计算机。五角大楼向Meta支持的Scale AI授予了一份据报道价值5亿美元的合同。而联邦合同仅是杠杆的一部分。
Musk and his companies have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, according to a Washington Post investigation SpaceX alone received billions in Space Force business. Nvidia partnered with the Department of Energy to build its largest AI supercomputer. The Pentagon awarded Meta-backed Scale AI a reported $500 million contract And federal contracts are only part of the leverage.
科技公司还需要能源、土地、许可证、签证、出口批准以及来自监管机构的优惠待遇。他们还得担心反垄断调查、可能改变供应链的关税，以及一位愿意让政策变得个人化的总统。
Tech companies need energy, land, permits, visas, export approvals and favorable treatment from regulators. They have antitrust investigations to worry about, tariffs that can alter their supply chains and a president willing to make policy feel personal.
Anthropic 了解到那是什么样子。该公司拒绝移除 Claude 防止大规模国内监控和完全自主致命武器的防护措施。五角大楼将 Anthropic 列为供应链风险，随后联邦上诉法院维持了这一认定，允许该部门禁止 Claude 进入国防部系统和国防工作。
Anthropic learned what that can look like. The company refused to remove Claude’s safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons. The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and a federal appeals court later upheld that designation, allowing the department to bar Claude from Defense Department systems and defense work.
这对每一位需要对员工、投资者和董事会负责的首席执行官来说都是一个有用的教训。如果避免冲突的代价是把“AI”换成“超级智能”，那么这个计算就很容易了。
That is a useful lesson for every CEO who has employees, investors and a board to answer to. If the price of avoiding a fight is swapping “AI” for “super intelligence,” the calculation is easy.
一位更有纪律的总统——或者至少，一个需求更少的总统——可能会利用同样的杠杆提出更重大的要求。每当一位亿万富翁纵容特朗普时，都会让下一位总统更容易提出更多要求。而在一个更稳定的民主制度中，这些高管可能不会感受到同样的压力，因为他们知道国会和法院会保护他们。
A more disciplined president — or at least, a less needy one — might use the same leverage for more consequential demands. Every time a billionaire indulges Trump, it makes it easier for the next president to ask for more. And in a more stable democracy, those executives might not feel the same pressure, knowing Congress and the courts would protect them.
这似乎是这些亿万富翁可能想要解决的问题。但目前，说“超级智能”更容易。AI 会梦见电子羊吗？
That seems like a problem these billionaires might want to address. But for now, it’s easier to just say “super intelligence.”Does AI dream of electric sheep?
至于紧迫的问题，据《金融时报》报道，OpenAI 告诉投资者其年化收入正接近 500 亿美元。此外，该公司面临更多法律风险，并已向超过 100 个组织发出警报，称存在可疑的流氓 AI 代理活动。
As for pressing concerns, OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was approaching $50 billion, according to the Financial Times Elsewhere, the company faces more legal risks and has alerted more than 100 organizations to suspected rogue AI-agent activity.
一名前员工曾领导撰写安全报告的团队，在《大西洋月刊》上宣布：“我辞职离开OpenAI，因为其文化已经破碎。”大卫·罗宾逊如此总结：“人工智能行业未能教会机器始终像一个明智且富有同情心的人那样行事。”
A now former employee who led the team writing safety reports announced in The Atlantic“I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken.”David Robinson summed it up this way: “The AI industry has failed to teach machines to consistently act in the ways a wise and caring person would.”
在接受《政治》杂志采访时，他的前上司山姆·奥尔特曼承认人工智能会带来不良后果，但他坚持认为自己只能接受“非真正灾难性的风险”，例如失去对人工智能的控制。他指出，其公司与Anthropic的主要区别在于：“我们认为世界应该接受一些不良后果，以换取这项技术的益处以及人们拥有自主权。”此外，人工智能没有灵魂。顺便说一句，奥尔特曼在社交媒体上驳斥了有关Anthropic联合创始人威胁退出与教皇会面的报道，原因是教皇认为人工智能没有意识。
In an interview with Politico his former boss, Sam Altman, acknowledged bad things will happen with AI, but said he draws the line at “the really catastrophic risks” such as a loss of control to AI. His company’s main difference with Anthropic is “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.”Also, AI doesn’t have a soul. ICYMI, Altman took to social media to rebuff reports that Anthropic’s co-founder threatened to pull out of a meeting with the Pope over the Pope’s position that AI does not have a consciousness.
“我对人们试图将宗教力量或人类判断的放弃归因于人工智能模型感到非常不安，我认为这是一个真正的安全问题。”奥尔特曼在社交媒体上写道。教皇也曾表达类似观点：“算法缺乏人性的火花，”他在社交媒体上发文。尽管如此，人工智能仍是华尔街的热门话题——通胀、油价、利率上升、国家债务。
“I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue,” Altman wrote on The Pope said something similar: “Algorithms lack the spark of humanity,” he posted on Despite it all, AI remains story on Wall Street War. Inflation. Gas prices. Rising interest rates.
投资者对此视而不见，继续向人工智能领域倾注资金。周一，纳斯达克指数创历史新高。英伟达股价亦创历史新高。“ magnificent seven（即七大科技股）也收盘于历史最高市值，合计市值达24.8万亿美元，”《华尔街日报》如此写道。乐队继续演奏。
National debt. Investors shrug it all off and continue to throw money at AI. On Monday, the Nasdaq set a new record. Nvidia set a new record. “The Magnificent Seven stocks also closed at a new market cap high, with a combined market value of $24.8 trillion,” writes the Wall Street Journal The band played on.
如果我们有更多证据表明人工智能正在让公司变得更有利可图就好了。企业正在全力投入人工智能，但仍难以证明它正在为他们的利润贡献力量。阿波罗公司首席经济学家托斯滕·斯洛克指出：“人工智能的繁荣在公司投入的规模和股权估值中可见一斑，但尚未在生产率统计数据中体现，这意味着人工智能带来的生产率回报仍是一种预测而非观察结果。”
If only we had more evidence AI is making companies more profitable. Businesses are going all in on AI, but still struggle to show that it’s adding to their bottom line. Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, noted“The AI boom is visible in how much companies are investing and in equity valuations, but it is not yet visible in the productivity statistics, which means the productivity payoff from AI remains a forecast rather than an observation.”
签证问题：政府正在收紧对外国工人和学生的签证政策，同时却在赞扬外籍出生的首席执行官。周四，政府暂停了微软、Adobe等公司参与PERM劳工认证项目的资格——这是雇主用于为员工申请绿卡的关键步骤，指控这些公司滥用该系统。
Visa charges The administration is cracking down on visas for foreign workers and students while celebrating foreign-born CEOs. On Thursday, the administration suspended Microsoft, Adobe and other companies from the PERM labor-certification program, a key step employers use to sponsor workers for green cards, alleging abuse of the system.
副总统JD·万斯在特朗普表彰微软首席执行官萨蒂亚·纳德拉并授予其国家技术与创新奖章几小时前作出了上述宣布。纳德拉出生于印度。
Vice President JD Vance made the announcement a few hours before Trump honored Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Nadella was born in India.
特朗普还授予了国家科学奖章给埃隆·马斯克（出生于南非）、谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖·布林（出生于俄罗斯）、英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋（出生于台湾）以及AMD首席执行官丽莎·苏（出生于台湾）。黄仁勋在随父母参加活动时对NBC新闻表示：“我是移民，我的父母把我们带到这里来追逐美国梦。这是一种令人难以置信的荣誉，而这种荣誉只能在美国实现。”白宫举办的此次活动被总统称为科学的“黄金时代”，活动中宣布将拨出1亿美元用于支持美国科研人员的教育项目。
Trump also awarded the National Medal of Science Elon Musk (born in South Africa), Google co-founder Sergey Brin (born in Russia), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (born in Taiwan) and AMD CEO Lisa Su (born in Taiwan) Walking into the event with his parents, Huang told NBC News, “I was an immigrant, and my parents brought us here to pursue the American dream. It’s an incredible honor and something that could only happen here in America.” event at the White House that the president described as a “golden age” for science included the announcement of $100 million for education programs for American researchers in scientific fields.
与此同时，国土安全部正在提议向大学收取7万美元的初始费用，以允许国际学生在毕业期间或毕业后在美国临时工作——该政策目前正陷入联邦法院的争议中。万斯暗示大学正在滥用该项目。
Meanwhile, DHS is proposing a $70,000 initial fee that universities would have to pay for international students to temporarily work in the US during or after graduation, which are tied up in federal courts for now. Vance suggested universities are abusing the program.
政府表示，他们希望在与中国的竞赛中“获胜”。许多美国最知名的AI公司都是由移民创办或协助领导的。文章：亿万富翁们不断向特朗普屈服是有原因的 MS NOW
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