美国纽约州参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默敦促联邦通信委员会（FCC）不要批准保守派组织“俱乐部成长”（Club for Growth）提交的请愿书，以允许在11月中期选举前使用AI生成的自动语音电话。
United States Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York has urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to approve a petition by the conservative group Club for Growth to allow AI-generated robocalls ahead of the November midterm elections.
“在这项变更下，竞选活动可能会利用对手的声音发送信息，最好的情况下是不诚实的，最坏的情况下是公然的谎言，”舒默周一表示。
“Under this change, campaigns could use their opponents’ voice to send out a message that is, at best, disingenuous and, at worst, a blatant lie,” Schumer said on Monday.
该请愿书最初于8月31日提交，公众意见征询期从9月4日开始，将于周一截止。
The petition was originally filed on August 31, and the public comment period began on September 4 and expires on Monday.
本月早些时候，FCC的民主党成员安娜·戈麦斯也敦促她的同事不要考虑由全国性保守派财政政策组织提交的请愿书。
Earlier this month Anna Gomez, the Democratic member of the FCC, urged her colleagues not to allow consideration of the petition brought by the national conservative fiscal policy organisation.
她的担忧与舒默的呼声一致。“如果FCC允许暗钱组织向美国人手机发送他们从未同意接收的AI生成自动语音电话，这将在选举日前夕制造混乱，”戈麦斯当时对路透社表示。
Her concerns echoed Schumer’s. “[If] the FCC allows a dark money group to flood Americans’ phones with AI-generated robocalls they never agreed to receive, it would bring chaos so close to Election Day,” commissioner Gomez told the Reuters news agency at the time.
此前已有类似担忧的先例。在2024年总统大选期间，新罕布什尔州初选之前，选民们收到了一段以时任民主党现任总统乔·拜登声音生成的AI语音，内容是告诉他们不要投票。FCC表示，一名与长期落选的初选挑战者迪恩·菲利普斯合作的政治顾问对此负责。
There is precedent for the concerns being raised. In the 2024 presidential election, ahead of the New Hampshire primary, voters received an AI-generated version in the voice of President Joe Biden, the then Democratic incumbent, telling them not to vote. The FCC said that a political consultant working with longshot primary challenger Dean Phillips was responsible.
在州一级，路易斯安那州、田纳西州和佛蒙特州今年通过了法律，要求对AI生成的竞选电话进行披露。虽然自动语音电话多年来一直被用于政治竞选，但FCC规定禁止在未事先获得同意的情况下向手机发送此类电话，但该限制不适用于固定电话。
At the state level, Louisiana, Tennessee and Vermont passed laws this year requiring disclosures for AI-generated campaign phone calls. While robocalls have been used in political campaigns for years, FCC rules prohibit such calls to cellphones without prior consent, but the restrictions do not apply to landlines.
“俱乐部成长”（Club for Growth）的总裁大卫·麦克因托什本月早些时候在一份声明中表示，该组织正在要求FCC将受第一修正案保护的政治言论，与其已经对快递包裹、银行账户和医生预约的无线电话所采取的待遇方式相同对待。
Club for Growth’s president, David McIntosh, in a statement earlier this month, said that the group is asking for “the FCC to treat First Amendment-protected political speech the same way it already treats wireless calls about package deliveries, bank accounts, and doctor’s appointments”.
“在美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）中，没有人表示有兴趣对这份请愿书或任何其他请愿书采取行动；目前也完全没有这样的计划。根据常规程序，FCC只是会对收到的请愿书进行公开征求意见。”FCC的一位发言人告诉半岛电视台（Al Jazeera）说道。
“There is no one at the FCC that has expressed any interest in moving to an order on this or any of the petitions, and there are zero plans to do so. The FCC seeks comment on petitions that come in as a matter of normal procedure,” a spokesperson for the FCC told Al Jazeera.