史蒂文·李·迈尔斯 OpenAI和其他科技公司正在建立选举“作战室”，以在2026年美国中期选举前阻止AI驱动的虚假信息。
Steven Lee Myers OpenAI and other tech firms are building election “war rooms” to stop AI-driven disinformation before the 2026 US midterms.
威胁现在包括深度伪造、网络攻击和影响力行动，而不再仅限于文本，因为AI能够快速创建虚假内容。
The threats now include deepfakes, cyberattacks and influence campaigns, not just text, as AI can quickly create false content.
专家警告称，在信任与安全团队遭裁减后风险正在增加，而OpenAI表示正试图在行动“有机会获得牵引力”之前将其捕获。 AI生成 旧金山——在OpenAI位于旧金山的一个办公室食堂旁的一个小会议室里，十几个人正昼夜不停地工作，防止任何人利用ChatGPT干扰2026年的中期选举。
Experts warn the risk is growing after trust and safety cuts, while OpenAI says it is trying to catch operations “before they have a chance to gain traction.”AI generated SAN FRANCISCO – In a small conference room off the cafeteria at one of OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco, a team of more than a dozen people are working around the clock to prevent anyone from using ChatGPT to disrupt 2026’s midterm elections.
这个运营中心代表了该公司在2024年总统大选前初步努力的大幅扩张。当时人工智能工具的能力弱得多，而聊天机器人的用户数仅为如今10亿用户的五分之一。
The operations centre represents a vast expansion of the company’s nascent efforts before the 2024 presidential election. Artificial intelligence tools were far less powerful at the time and the chatbot had a fifth of the 1 billion users it has today.
“2024年当时最易获得的技术是文本，”OpenAI公民与战略风险负责人乔什·劳森说，他正领导这个运营中心。“我们不再只是监控文本了。”现在，潜在威胁包括深度伪造、网络攻击，以及可以通过一系列提示词创建并发起的外国和国内影响力行动。该公司并非孤军奋战。
“The most available technology at the time in 2024 was text,” said Josh Lawson, the head of civic and strategic risk at OpenAI, who is leading the operation centre. “We’re not just monitoring text anymore.”Now, the potential threats include deepfakes, cyberattacks and foreign and domestic influence operations that can be created and launched with a series of prompts. The company is not alone.
运营Claude聊天机器人的Anthropic首次设立了自己的“作战室”，在旧金山、纽约和华盛顿组建了分析师小组。
Anthropic, which operates the Claude chatbot, has set up its own “war room” for the first time, assembling teams of analysts in cells in San Francisco, New York and Washington.
谷歌和Meta也承诺将大力遏制利用其AI工具破坏民主进程信心的行为。
Google and Meta have also pledged robust efforts to thwart efforts to use their AI tools to undermine confidence in the democratic process.
随着AI日益融入线上的社会和政治生活，这些公司都因在限制恶意内容方面做得不够而面临批评。
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into social and political life online, the companies have all faced criticism for not doing enough to limit malicious content.
布雷南司法中心是纽约大学法学院旗下的一个投票权利与民主组织，该中心发现，最流行的聊天机器人通常会拒绝回答关于选举相关阴谋论的查询。与此同时，该中心发现，AI工具经常生成文本、图像和视频，这些内容可能被用来破坏人们对选举的信心。
The Brennan Center for Justice, a voting rights and democracy group at New York University School of Law, found that the most popular chatbots generally pushed back on queries about election-related conspiracy theories. At the same time, the centre found, AI tools regularly created text, images and videos that could be used to undermine confidence in elections.
这些公司设立“作战室”，让人联想到Meta在2018年中期选举前设立类似机构，此举是在2016年总统大选期间Facebook遭遇俄罗斯干预风波后采取的行动。
The companies’ establishment of war rooms recalls Meta’s creation of one for the 2018 midterm elections following the furor over a Russian interference campaign on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election.
此后，在共和党人的施压下，以及2025年后特朗普政府的施压下，Meta和其他社交媒体平台缩减了其信任与安全团队，包括打击选举相关虚假信息的工作。他们指责这些平台审查保守派观点。
Since then, Meta and other social media platforms scaled back their trust and safety teams, including efforts to police election-related disinformation. They did so under pressure from Republicans and, after 2025, the Trump administration, who accused them of censoring conservative views.
这种退缩与AI的扩散同时发生，加剧了人们对其影响选举的担忧。
That retreat has coincided with the proliferation of AI, increasing fears of its impact on elections.
专家和前政府官员警告称，技术创造了强大的新方式来破坏公众对选举进程的信心，与此同时，特朗普政府拆散了此前负责打击破坏投票行为的政府团队。
Experts and former government officials have warned that technology has created potent new ways to undermine public confidence in the electoral process even as the Trump administration dismantled the government teams that previously combated efforts to disrupt voting.
“认为这种威胁已经消散、技术没有让威胁变得更强大和更可信，那将是愚蠢的，”劳伦·普罗滕蒂斯说。她是前政府官员，曾在前总统乔·拜登任内于国家安全委员会负责监督外国恶意影响行动。
“I think it would be foolish to think that threat has dissipated and that technology is not making the threats more potent and believable,” said Lauren Protentis, a former government official who oversaw foreign malign influence on the National Security Council under former President Joe Biden.
OpenAI于10月29日启动了其选举中心，组建了一支由员工组成的专门团队，负责监控全球最流行聊天机器人的滥用情况。公司官员表示，位于旧金山的团队与华盛顿的一个卫星中心协作，涉及数十人。
OpenAI stood up its election centre on Oct 29, assembling a team of employees who are dedicated to monitoring misuse of the world’s most popular chatbot. The team in San Francisco works with a satellite centre in Washington and involves scores of people, company officials said.
他们检查ChatGPT上被自动标记为试图制造关于选举的虚假文本或图像的提示词。
They examine prompts on ChatGPT that have been automatically flagged for attempts to create false texts or images about the election.
这可能包括提示聊天机器人设计一场影响力行动——例如关于塞票的行动——并利用虚假账号在社交媒体平台上传播。当公司识别出意在其网站上使用的恶意活动时，会通知相关平台。
That could include prompting the chatbot to design an influence campaign – about stuffing ballots, for example – to spread on a social media platform using fake accounts. The company notifies the platforms when it identifies malign activity intended for use on their site.
OpenAI 已披露了俄罗斯、中国和伊朗利用 ChatGPT 开展外国影响力行动的努力，包括该公司在 10 月挫败的两场行动。该公司尚未披露任何针对中期选举的具体行动。
OpenAI has already disclosed efforts by Russia, China and Iran to use ChatGPT to carry out foreign influence operations, including two campaigns it disrupted in October. It has not yet disclosed any specific efforts in the midterm elections.
“我们一直在设法捕捉这些行动，”OpenAI 首席调查员本·尼莫在接受采访时表示，“在它们有机会获得关注之前。” 纽约时报 本文最初刊登于《纽约时报》。
“We’ve been trying to catch operations,” OpenAI’s chief investigator, Ben Nimmo, said in an interview, “before they have a chance to gain traction.”NYTIMES This article originally appeared in The New York Times.