我们必须明确：人工智能对人类构成的风险是前所未有的。如果不进行紧急的公众辩论，并有效运用国际法，我们将失去对未来的掌控。
在我担任总检察长两年的期间，我花在国家安全问题上的时间超过了任何其他议题。
Let’s be clear: the risk to humanity is unprecedented. Without an urgent public debate and robust use of international law, we will lose control of the future In my two years as attorney general, I spent more time working on national security than any other issue.
我们国家所面临的威胁既广泛又严峻，从恐怖主义、武装冲突和核扩散，到金融不安全带来的影响以及气候危机，都是深远的挑战。然而，我们卓越的情报和国防部门完全有能力应对这些挑战。
The range and gravity of the threats posed to our nation are multifold, from terrorism, armed conflicts and nuclear proliferation, to the impacts of financial insecurity and the climate crisis. All profound challenges, yet ones our superb intelligence and defence communities are well placed to counter.
而人工智能带来的风险则具有完全不同的量级，不仅规模巨大，而且应对的时间窗口非常有限。这一风险绝不可低估：它构成了对人类生存的根本威胁。警报已经拉响，我们必须在为时已晚之前立即行动。
The risk from AI is of an altogether different magnitude, not only in scale, but also because there is a limited time window to address it. The risk is difficult to overestimate: it poses an existential risk to humanity. The lights are flashing red and we must act now before it’s too late.
尽管人工智能带来的巨大威胁早已被其研发领域的专家所指出，但直到最近，随着Hugging Face安全漏洞事件曝光以及雅各布·科克森从Anthropic辞职，这一问题才开始在公众讨论中受到关注。
Although the extraordinary threats posed by AI have long been flagged by those closely involved in its creation, it was not until very recently, after the disclosure of the Hugging Face hack and the resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic, that the issue at last started to gain traction in the public discourse.
这是一个机遇，为了抓住这一机遇，我们迫切需要加强国际协调，加快对前沿人工智能的监管。
This moment is an opportunity, and to capitalise on it we desperately need increased urgency in international coordination to regulate frontier AI.
同时，我们也必须就如何塑造人工智能以造福人类、而非巩固少数人的权力，展开有意义的公众讨论。
There must also be meaningful public engagement with how AI should be shaped to benefit humanity, rather than entrench the power of a few.
我们不能将这一问题完全交给中国、美国和大型科技公司——我们所有人都必须在这一讨论中拥有发言权。
We cannot leave this to China, the US and big tech – we must all demand a voice in the debate.