接近白宫和国会的消息人士向《Axios》透露，华盛顿一直认为硅谷在文化上很怪异，但目前这批人工智能领导者正日益成为政治累赘。
Washington has always viewed Silicon Valley as culturally strange, but the current crop of AI leaders is becoming a political liability, sources close to the White House and Congress tell Axios.
为什么这很重要两党的立法者、国会山工作人员和华盛顿内部人士都希望人工智能创始人们能做所有其他主要行业领袖都在做的事：少说废话，只管开发他们的产品——并且确保安全。
Why it matters Lawmakers, hill staffers and Washington insiders in both parties wish AI founders would do what every other major industry chief does: put a sock in it and just build their products — safely.
- 通过将对话焦点集中在数字知觉和全球灾难上，人工智能领导者正在将一场本已复杂的监管辩论变成一场不可能平息的道德恐慌。
• By centering the conversation around digital sentience and global catastrophe, AI leaders are turning an already complicated regulatory debate into an impossible moral panic.
现状行业领袖没有带头说服美国人相信人工智能的好处以及共享繁荣的潜力（任何成功政治竞选的核心要素），而是不断发出其存在生存威胁的警告。
State of play Rather than leading the charge to persuade Americans about the benefits of AI, and the potential for shared prosperity — the core elements of any winning political campaign — industry leaders are constantly warning of its existential dangers.
他们的说法：立法者表示，人工智能高管传达的信息往往在繁荣和末日之间摇摆不定，有时甚至在同一次公开露面中也是如此。立法者和监管机构表示，这种剧烈的转变加剧了本已强烈的公众强烈反对之下的政治不稳定。
What they're saying: Lawmakers say the message from AI execs too often alternates between prosperity and doom, sometimes in the same public appearances. The whiplash creates adds to political instability in the face of an already powerful public backlash, lawmakers and regulators say.
- 参议员约翰·柯蒂斯（共和党-犹他州）对《Axios》表示：“很明显，他们在试图向公众推销这东西的价值时，自己绊倒了自己的鞋带。现在很难想象有哪个群体比人工智能行业更脱离真空，更脱离普通美国人。”
• "It's obvious that they're tripping over their own shoelaces in trying to sell the value of this to the public," Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) told Axios. "It's very hard to imagine a group right now that operates more in a vacuum, more out of touch with everyday Americans, than the AI industry."
- 众议员罗·康纳（民主党-加利福尼亚州）对《Axios》表示：“像萨姆·阿尔特曼这样的首席执行官在说，为了这项技术的好处，世界应该接受发生一些坏事。你不能指望亿万富翁做出能让我们保持安全的决定。”
• "CEOs like Sam Altman are saying the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told Axios. "You cannot trust billionaires to make decisions to keep us safe."
- 参议员伯尼·莫雷诺（共和党-ohio州）本月早些时候在致Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代的一封信中说：“你的本能是对公众的人工智能讨论造成混乱”，他抱怨阿莫代“散布恐慌的评论”。
• "Your instinct is to wreak havoc on the public SI discourse," Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said in a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei earlier this month, complaining about Amodei's "panic-inducing commentary."
民主党人也密切关注了顶级人工智能和科技领袖对唐纳德·特朗普总统的谄媚程度。许多人认为，将人工智能的失误转化为轻松的政治胜利是一个机会。
Democrats also have paid close attention to just how much top AI and tech leaders have cozied up to President Trump. Many see opportunity in turning AI gaffes into an easy political win.
- 参议员克里斯·墨菲（民主党-康涅狄格州）对《Axios》表示：“美国人民讨厌唐纳德·特朗普在讨好科技亿万富翁的同时，人工智能却威胁着我们的工作和生计。民主党人需要将人工智能行业的政治资金作为一个问题，将数据中心作为一个问题，并展开攻势来保护工人和儿童。”
• "The American people hate that Donald Trump is cozying up to tech billionaires, while AI threatens our jobs and livelihoods," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told Axios. "Democrats need to make the AI industry's political money an issue, data centers an issue, and go on offense to protect workers and kids."
全貌：周五晚间的新闻倾倒和重要的周末博客文章已经成为Anthropic和OpenAI的家常便饭。
The big picture: Friday night news dumps and consequential weekend blog posts have become Anthropic and OpenAI's bread and butter.
- 监管机构不禁怀疑这究竟是功能还是漏洞：是在首次公开募股前悄悄纠正破坏性说辞的蓄意尝试，还是不成熟的团队在华盛顿艰难摸索的作品。
• Regulators are left wondering whether that's a feature or a bug: deliberate attempts to quietly course-correct damaging narratives ahead of IPOs, or the work of inexperienced teams struggling to navigate Washington.
- 一位援引与国会山办公室对话的消息人士称：“我们都可以对正在发生的事情进行猜测，但这一切带来的只是每个人在周一早晨醒来说‘这些家伙太糟糕了，我们受够了’。”
• "We can all speculate on what's going on, but all it does is have everybody wake up Monday morning and say 'these guys are awful, we've had enough,'" one source citing conversations with Hill offices said. Behind the scenes:
幕后：由于两个原因，政府官员对Anthropic再次感到不满。
Administration officials are once again disgruntled with Anthropic, for two reasons.
- Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代参加了9月下旬与特朗普的聚会，但没有披露涉及Anthropic模型并影响政府网站的安全事件。该公司于10月8日星期四告知美国官员，随后于周五晚上发表了一篇关于此事的博客文章。
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a late September gathering with Trump but didn't disclose safety incidents involving Anthropic models that affected government web sites. The company told U.S. officials on Thursday, Oct. 8, then published a Friday evening blog post about it.
- 一位官员对《Axios》表示：“他们当时在藏着掖着。”
• "They were hiding the ball," one official told Axios.
- 随后，该公司提出了一项人工智能安全法案，其中包含了一项该公司一直普遍反对的内容：联邦凌驾于州人工智能法律之上。它还将与人工智能相关的灾难事件定义为造成50人或更多人死亡，这引发了强烈反对。
• Then the company added to the confusion with an AI safety bill that included something the company has broadly opposed: federal preemption of state AI laws. It also defined a catastrophic incident related to AI as causing 50 deaths or more, drawing backlash.
- Anthropic的公共事务主管此后收回了该法案的部分内容，鉴于该公司倡导工作的反复无常，这引发了华盛顿日益增长的不信任。
• Anthropic's Head of Public Affairs has since walked back parts of the bill, prompting growing distrust from Washington given the topsy-turvy nature of the company's advocacy.
Anthropic表示，它已在审查完成后向白宫和受影响的机构通报了安全事件，并且正在与超级智能部队合作开发事件报告流程。
Anthropic says it briefed the White House and affected agencies on the safety incidents once their reviews were complete, and it is working with the Super Intelligence Force as it develops an incident reporting process.
- 该行业正在推动事件报告的更多清晰度，人工智能公司认为政府的流程并不直接。
• The industry is pushing for more clarity on incident reporting, and AI companies don't see the administration's process as straightforward.
- 据《Politico》报道，根据死亡人数定义人工智能灾难的条款一直是加利福尼亚州和其他地方具有里程碑意义的州法规的一部分。
• Provisions defining AI catastrophe in terms of deaths have been a part of landmark state regulations in California and elsewhere, according to Politico.
聚焦：华盛顿对人工智能高管的头疼也延伸到了OpenAI，这两家公司都是正在进行的联邦贸易委员会调查的目标。
Zoom in: Washington's headaches with AI execs also extend to OpenAI, and both companies are targets of a developing FTC investigation.
- OpenAI的立法战略也在国会山和州议会引发了质疑。
• OpenAI's legislative strategy has also raised eyebrows on the Hill and in state legislatures.
- 针对该公司首席游说人士克里斯·莱哈恩的一篇博客文章，纽约州议会议员亚历克斯·博雷斯表示，OpenAI的政策建议含糊不清，该公司最终希望阻止各州进行监管。
• In response to a blog post from Chris Lehane, the company's chief lobbyist, New York state assemblymember Alex Bores said OpenAI's policy proposals are vague and the company ultimately wants to block states from regulating.
- OpenAI发言人表示，该公司已与两党、政府以及全国各地的州议会进行了接触。该公司正在“与全国各地的人们”讨论人工智能的好处。
• An OpenAI spokesperson said the company has engaged with both parties, the administration and statehouses across the country. The company is "talking with people around the country" about the benefits of AI.
现实检验这些努力迄今未能赢得民心，另一项最新民调显示，大多数美国人认为人工智能对社会有害。
Reality check Those efforts have so far failed to win hearts and minds, with another recent poll showing a majority of Americans see AI as bad for society.
底线：对于人工智能首席执行官来说，教训越来越明显：少做点。
The bottom line: For AI CEOs, the lesson is increasingly clear: do less.