中国央行前行长周小川警告称，人工智能投资失败可能会引发金融动荡，并敦促各方做好准备以减轻风险，目前市场正担忧人工智能投资泡沫可能破裂。
Former Chinese central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan has warned that failed artificial intelligence investments could trigger financial turbulence and urged preparations to mitigate risks amid concerns over a potential bust of the AI investment bubble.
周小川周二在上海的外滩金融峰会的一场小组讨论中表示：“考虑到……如此大量的投资流向了人工智能设施；如果其中一部分投资失败，就会引发金融动荡，这可能会制造一场危机。”
“Consider[ing]... such a large amount of the investment going to the AI facility; if a part of it goes to failure, it causes financial turbulence, and this may create a crisis,” Zhou said during a panel discussion at the Bund Summit in Shanghai on Tuesday.
“这需要采取非常大的行动来拯救我们的经济和一些金融机构。”他呼吁开展更多研究和准备工作，并使用相关工具来减轻人工智能投资失败可能带来的余波。
“It needs a very large action to bail out our economy [and] some of the financial institutions.”He called for more research and preparation, as well as tools to mitigate the potential fallout from failed AI investments.
周小川发表此番言论之际，正值外界对人工智能相关领域投资过热感到担忧，上周华尔街的人工智能股票遭遇了抛售。
Zhou’s comments come amid concerns over excessive investment in AI-related sectors, with a sell-off in AI stocks on Wall Street last week.
国际货币基金组织亚太部副主任孙莉·简-钱德拉（Sonali Jain-Chandra）表示，鉴于该地区在从先进芯片制造到数据中心建设等整个科技供应链中的敞口，亚洲容易受到人工智能相关投资潜在低迷的影响。
Sonali Jain-Chandra, deputy director at the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund, said Asia was vulnerable to a potential downturn in AI-related investment, given the region’s exposure across the technology supply chain, from advanced chipmaking to data centre construction.
她在周二于上海举行的新闻发布会上表示：“亚洲暴露在风险之中。而且不仅限于那些你首先会想到的人工智能领先国家。它贯穿于整个供应链。”
“Asia is exposed. And it’s not just the countries that you would think first about in terms of being the leaders in AI. It’s all along the supply chain,” she said during a press briefing in Shanghai on Tuesday.
“这就是为什么我们必须说，现在是建立缓冲的时候了……以确保如果出现经济低迷，无论是来自人工智能还是其他任何风险，决策者都有应对的空间。”在周二的小组讨论中，周小川还就人工智能蒸馏技术的辩论发表了看法，认为该技术和更广泛的人工智能应用可以提高生产力并为投资者产生回报。华盛顿曾指控中国公司不当蒸馏美国前沿模型，北京方面已多次拒绝这一指控。
“This is why we have to say that now is the time to build buffers ... to make sure that if there is a downturn, whether it comes from AI or any of the other risks, policymakers have space to be able to respond.”At Tuesday’s panel, Zhou also weighed in on the debate over AI distillation, arguing that the technology and broader AI applications could boost productivity and generate returns for investors. Washington has accused Chinese firms of improperly distilling US frontier models, an allegation Beijing has repeatedly rejected.
周小川说：“对许多人来说，这种蒸馏可能会引发侵犯知识产权的担忧。”
“For many people, this distillation may have a concern of the infringing intellectual property right,” Zhou said.
*“但实际上，蒸馏意味着你的知识、你的智能正在从上一代的智能中升级。你得到了建立在现有知识和智能之下的简化、精确的概念。”
“But actually, distillation means that your knowledge, your intelligence, is upgrading from the intelligence in the past generation. You get simplified, precise concepts which are established under existing knowledge and intelligence.”