四位潜在的民主党总统候选人——伊利诺伊州州长JB·普里茨克、前芝加哥市长拉姆·伊曼纽尔、新泽西州参议员科里·布克和加利福尼亚州众议员罗·卡纳——据《政治玩家》旗下“解码”栏目独家获悉，周末在旧金山与人工智能安全倡导者和民主党资深人士举行了会晤。
Four potential Democratic presidential candidates — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Rep. Ro Khanna — met over the weekend in San Francisco with AI safety advocates and Democratic Party veterans, according to exclusive details obtained by Decoded by POLITICO.
这次为期两天的活动在中期选举结束仅数天后举行，凸显了2028年总统竞选潜在参选人正将人工智能视为其潜在竞选活动的关键部分，因为选民对人工智能数据中心等问题的不满在上周民主党大获全胜中发挥了作用。
The two-day event held just days after the midterm elections underscores how 2028 hopefuls are viewing AI as a crucial part of their potential presidential bids after voter discontent over issues like AI data centers played a role in Democrats’ sweeping wins last week.
此次活动由“谁来决定”组织主办——这是一个由纽约州众议员亚历克斯·博雷斯及其前立法助理安娜·迈尔斯运营的人工智能安全倡导组织——也确立了该组织作为人工智能与政治博弈中民主党早期关键力量的地位。博雷斯自撰写一项里程碑式州法律以来，已成为人工智能安全领域的关键声音，并在国会初选中因行业的强烈反对性支出而落败。
The event, hosted by Who Decides — an AI safety advocacy organization run by New York Assemblymember Alex Bores and his former legislative aide Anna Myers — also cemented the organization as an early Democratic power player in the AI and politics fight. Bores has become a key voice on AI safety since authoring a landmark law in the state and losing a congressional primary amid intense opposition spending from the industry.
其他与会者还包括美国劳联-产联主席丽兹·舒勒（她领导着全国最大的劳工联盟）、众议员史蒂文·霍斯福德（民主党-内华达州）、前民主党全国委员会主席杰米·哈里森以及国会黑人核心小组执行主任文斯·埃文斯。
Other attendees included Liz Shuler, who as AFL-CIO president leads the largest labor coalition in the country, as well as Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison and Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Vince Evans.
据三位直接了解活动情况的人士透露，会议设有一对一访谈和小组讨论，探讨民主党实际上应对人工智能采取何种行动；上述人士因私下对话的坦率性而获准匿名。这些人士表示，人工智能安全研究人员的报告让许多出席的传统民主党人感到恐惧。
The meeting featured one-on-one interviews and group discussions of what the party should actually do about AI, according to three people with direct knowledge of the event, granted anonymity to candidly discuss private conversations. The people said reports from AI safety researchers scared many of the more traditional Democrats in attendance.
“我感到恐惧，”南卡罗来纳州民主党主席克里斯塔尔·斯潘在一个关于2028年早期初选州的小组讨论伊始说道，据与会者回忆。她以玩笑结束了讨论，对观众说：“如果你们还要搞另一次AI安全会议，别邀请我。”一位与会者称该活动是民主党党棍与硅谷AI研究人员之间的“跨物种混合”。活动于周五在旧金山Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture的素食餐厅Greens举行的一场110人晚宴拉开帷幕，以照顾许多AI安全倡导者的饮食限制。据该与会者称，这在民主党生态系统内引发了一些“友好的抱怨”。
“I am terrified,” South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Christale Spain said at the beginning of a panel on early 2028 primary states, according to their accounts of the event. She ended the discussion joking about her fears, saying to the audience, “if you’re having another AI safety convening, do not invite me.”One attendee called the event an “interspecies mixing” between Democratic partisans and Silicon Valley-based AI researchers. It began on Friday with a 110-person dinner at Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, in order to accommodate the dietary restrictions of many AI safety advocates. That elicited some “friendly grumbling” from the Democratic ecosystem, according to the attendee.
周六，150人挤满了Market Street的四季酒店。分组讨论包括计划生育联合会首席执行官亚历克西斯·麦吉尔·约翰逊与埃马纽埃尔；零售、批发百货工会主席斯图·阿佩尔鲍姆与布克；美国教师联合会主席兰迪·温加滕与卡纳；以及博雷斯与普里兹克之间的对话。
On Saturday, 150 people filled the Four Seasons on Market Street. Breakout sessions included discussions between Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson and Emanuel; Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union President Stu Appelbaum and Booker; American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and Khanna; as well as between Bores and Pritzker.
“我认为AI安全风险是一种生存风险，”Khanna对与会者表示。他还指出，科技界领袖经常使用让选民觉得该问题更加抽象的语言。“科技圈的人……使用这些花哨的词汇——自我改进AI、气隙、沙箱——行话，就像念圣经的牧师。然后国会议员们就像：‘呃，我不知道。我不想被称为卢德分子。’美国民众也感受到了这一点。”
“I think the AI safety risk is an existential risk,” Khanna told attendees. He also noted tech leaders frequently use language that makes the issue more abstract to voters. “The tech folks … use these fancy words — self-improving AI, air gap, sandbox — jargon, like the priests reading the Bible. And then members of Congress are like: ‘Well, I don’t know. I don’t want to be called a Luddite.’ And the American people sense it.”
据知情人士透露，周末最戏剧性的一幕或许出现在Myers与一家AI安全研究机构的高层领导对话时，该领导告诉在场观众，“可能为时已晚”，无法阻止AI发展带来的灾难性危害。此言一出，室内响起一片倒吸冷气声；这位AI安全领域的高层领导随后澄清说，“我们可能还有一年或两年时间。如果还不算太晚，我们也没有足够长的时间指望统一政府（采取行动），所以我们大概需要两党合作。”组织并主持该活动的Myers曾在科技行业工作，Bores也是如此。
Perhaps the most dramatic moment of the weekend, according to insiders, came as Myers spoke with a senior leader at an AI safety research organization, who told the assembled audience that “it might be too late” to stop catastrophic harms from AI development. That elicited gasps within the room; the senior AI safety leader later clarified to say, “we might have one year or two years. If we aren’t too late, we don’t have long enough to count on unified government, so we probably need bipartisan cooperation here.”Myers, who organized and introduced the event, used to work in tech, as did Bores.
“我们的反对派步调一致。我们没法把整个下午都花在互相说什么做不到上，”她在周六的开场发言中说。“这次对话需要各行各业的人参与。好消息是？看看四周。他们都在这儿。”
“Our opposition moves in lockstep. We can’t afford to spend the afternoon telling each other what isn't possible,” she said in her opening statement Saturday. “This conversation needs people from every walk of life. The good news? Look around. They're here.”
人工智能安全倡导者与政客之间的合作经常混乱不堪——进一步合作也无法保证。但据同一位与会者透露，潜在候选人来时“已针对这类捐赠者看重什么做好了准备”。
Collaboration between AI safety advocates and politicians has frequently been chaotic — and further cooperation is not assured. But according to the same attendee, the potential candidates came “prepped on what these types of donors look for.”
“国会若无所作为，招致的危害将比上一波技术浪潮带来的成倍增加。因此这是一个道德时刻，我们的历史应当在耳边回响，”布克在炉边谈话中说。“我呼吁召开国会特别会议——一个对国家安全后果如此重大、且有一些显而易见、两党都支持的应对举措的议题。”埃马纽埃尔告诉与会者，他们的担忧——以及公众的担忧——都是有理有据的。
“For Congress to do nothing is inviting exponentially more harm than the last wave of technology did. And so this is a moral moment where our history should ring in our ears,” Booker said during his fireside chat. “I call for a special session of Congress — an issue that has this big of a consequence to national security, and has some obvious things that we should be doing [that are] popular on both sides of the aisle.”Emanuel told attendees that their worries — and the concerns of the public — were well reasoned.
“我无法告诉人们别恐慌，”他说。“他们希望政府、掌权者和行业承担责任。”致新闻通讯
“I can’t tell people not to panic,” he said. “They want their government and those in control and industry to take accountability.”to the newsletter