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Global AI safety strategy hinges on US-China collaboration, yet each side regards the other as the crux of the problem

Global AI safety strategy hinges on US-China collaboration, yet each side regards the other as the crux of the problem

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September 17th, 2026

Global AI safety strategy hinges on US-China collaboration, yet each side regards the other as the crux of the problem

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As anxieties over the potential risks of artificial intelligence mount by the day, the success or failure of any global initiative hinges on whether the United States and China can join forcesyet between these two superpowers, nothing seems to attend their respective AI strategies but ever-deepening mutual suspicion.

随着对人工智能潜在风险的忧虑与日俱增,任何全球性方案的成败皆系于美中两国能否携手合作——然而这两个超级大国在彼此的人工智能战略上,似乎唯有愈发深重的猜忌。

Artificial intelligence governance is expected to feature on the agenda when President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet in Washington next week.

预计人工智能治理将被纳入唐纳德·特朗普总统与中国领导人习近平下周于华盛顿举行的会晤议程

The issue is becoming ever more pressing in both countries, with American technology leaders asserting that averting the worst-case scenarios that an unbridled artificial intelligence might unleash hinges on sustaining a measure of cooperation with China.

此一议题在两国均日趋紧迫美国科技界领袖表示欲规避失控人工智能所可能引发的最坏情形有赖于与中国保持一定程度的合作

Yet both nations are vying for decisive advantage in artificial intelligence, and Trump has warned that any measure aimed at regulating the technology would merely hand China a windfall.

然而两国均在角逐人工智能领域决定性优势特朗普更警告称任何旨在监管此项技术的举措都将令中国坐收渔利

This sets the tone for a meeting at which any agreement reached is likely to be dismissed as superficial, yet may nonetheless prove the genesis of something far grander.

为一场会晤预设了基调所达成的任何协议恐难逃浮泛之嫌或可成为某种更宏大进程之滥觞

"A formal agreement or consensus may be all but out of reach, yet they need not go that far," said Sam Sachs, a senior research fellow at the Future of US-China and Global Affairs Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

正式协议或共识或许近乎遥不可及但他们未必需要走到那一步,”约翰斯·霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院美中及全球事务未来研究所高级研究员萨姆·萨克斯表示

"Trump and Xi need only acknowledge that artificial intelligence poses risks to both nations, and in doing so they can carve out political space."

特朗普与习近平只需承认人工智能对两国均构成风险便可借此开辟政治空间。”

Trump has consistently resisted calls to strengthen regulation of this technology, asserting that such measures could enable China to surpass the United States in the field of artificial intelligence.

特朗普始终不渝地抵制强化该项技术监管的呼声声称此举致使中国在人工智能领域凌驾于美国之上。

He has repeatedly declared that the nation that leads in this technology "wins."

屡次宣称,引领这项技术的国家获胜”。

"We are leading China, and every other country," Trump declared on social media on Monday.

“我们正领先于中国,以及所有其他国家,”特朗普于周一在社交媒体上如此宣称。

The two countries are advancing this technology along markedly divergent paths.

两国正以迥然相异的路径推进这项技术

American companies, buoyed by the computing power underpinned by cutting-edge chips and by the United States' rapidly expanding data-center infrastructure, are relentlessly pursuing the frontiers of artificial intelligence, whereas China is striving to secure the widespread global adoption of its open-source, more cost-effective models.

美国企业凭借尖端芯片所支撑的算力加之美国急剧扩张的数据中心基础设施孜孜追逐人工智能前沿中国力图使其开源更具成本效益的模型在全球范围内获得广泛采用。

Even though US-led export controls have thwarted China's access to the world's most cutting-edge AI chips, Chinese AI models have nonetheless made substantial strides and won the favor of American companies.

纵然美国主导的管制举措阻遏中国获取全球最为尖端的人工智能芯片中国的人工智能模型依旧斩获了长足进展,博得美国企业的青睐

Although the vast majority of America's frontier models are closed-source, with their design elements kept under wraps, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared on Tuesday that the United States urgently needs to develop more open-source models in order to compete with China.

尽管美国绝大多数前沿模型均属闭源之列其设计要素秘而不宣,但美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特于周二宣称,美国亟需开发更多开源模型以与中国相抗衡

The United States accused China of seeking, in an "aggressive and malicious" manner, to extract capabilities from American artificial intelligence systems; China promptly struck back, retorting that the United States was intent on suppressing Chinese enterprises in order to construct an "artificial intelligence industry monopoly."

美国指控中国以“咄咄逼人、恶意”之姿,试图自美国人工智能系统中攫取能力;中国旋即予以回击,反诘美国意在打压中国企业,以构筑“人工智能行业垄断”。

David Sacks, a senior artificial intelligence adviser to Trump, has claimed that China "has already refused" to slow the pace of developing the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence.

特朗普高级人工智能顾问戴维·萨克斯声称中国已经拒绝放缓开发最先进形式人工智能的步伐

Speaking on Fox News's "The Ingraham Angle," he said that, unlike the nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no way to verify whether China complies with any artificial intelligence commitments.

他在福克斯新闻英格拉汉姆视角节目中表示冷战时期美苏之间核紧张态势不同,中国是否遵守任何人工智能承诺均无从核实

"Under such circumstances, we have neither trust nor any means of verification," Sacks said.

在这种情况下我们既无信任可言,亦无从核实,”萨克斯

"So don't be foolish and simply hand the entire game over to China."

所以别犯傻,把整场比赛拱手让给中国。”

Nevertheless, informed individuals with ties to the government still maintain that coordinating on artificial intelligence would be a highly beneficial undertaking.

尽管如此,与政府方面存在关联的知情人士依然主张,就人工智能领域展开协调不失为一项颇具裨益的举措。

At an annual security and defense conference held in Beijing on Tuesday, former Chinese ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai pointed out that artificial intelligence is an area in which "we should advance and strengthen" dialogue between Beijing and Washington.

在周二于北京召开的一场年度安全与防务会议上,前中国驻美大使崔天凯指出人工智能乃是一个我们应该推进并加强北京与华盛顿之间对话领域

"Because there is a need for cooperation, and that need is continually growing," he said at the Xiangshan Forum.

因为存在合作的需要而且这种需要在不断增长,”他在香山论坛上表示

"So how do we manage this balance?"

那么我们如何管理这种平衡?”

Two leading American artificial intelligence companies, Anthropic and OpenAI, both face access restrictions within China and assert that the United States, on grounds of national security necessity, must preserve its leading position in the field of artificial intelligence technology; yet the two also call for cooperation with China in order to keep safety under control.

两家领军的美国人工智能企业Anthropic与OpenAI均在中国境内受到访问限制,并声称美国出于国家安全的必要,须维护其在人工智能技术领域的领先地位;然而,二者亦呼吁与中国开展合作,以对安全加以管控。

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published an article last weekend in which he called for slowing the pace of AI development on the grounds of safety concerns.

Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊于上周末撰文以安全之虞为由呼吁放缓人工智能的发展步伐

In the article, he argued that the United States ought to curb China's progress in this field, one means of doing so being to maintain the restrictions America imposes on China's procurement of the world's most advanced AI chips.

他在文中主张美国理应遏制中国在此领域的进展其手段之一便是维系美国对中国采购全球最尖端人工智能芯片所施加的限制。

Yet he also added, "any coordinated global effort will necessarily depend on collaboration with China, an authoritarian regime that possesses the most advanced AI capabilities to date."

然而他亦补充道,“全球层面的协调推进势必有赖于与中国开展协作而这一威权政体坐拥迄今最为尖端的人工智能实力。”

His article promptly drew censure from Beijing, with China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs declaring on Monday: "Spreading alarm, stoking confrontation, and inciting cutthroat competition will only disrupt the course of global AI governance and benefit no one."

他的文章旋即招致北京方面的责难,中国外交部于周一宣称:“散布恐慌、制造对抗与煽动恶性竞争,只会扰乱全球人工智能治理的进程,无益于任何一方。”

The Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times went a step further, characterizing his remarks as "brimming with containment clauses aimed at China, essentially a 'Cold War script' for the field of artificial intelligence."

中国官方报纸《环球时报》更进一步,称其言论“充斥着针对中国的遏制条款,本质上是一份人工智能领域的‘冷战剧本’”。

Trump has already entered into consultations with Nvidia's chief executive, Jensen Huang, going so far as to telephone the world's most advanced computer chip manufacturer midway through a podcast interview on Monday.

特朗普已与英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋展开磋商甚而在周一一次播客访谈进行至中途时致电这家全球最为先进的计算机芯片制造商

Nvidia is broadly in favour of exporting some chips to China, holding that doing so helps build an American ecosystem around the technology and forges a more open relationship in the field of artificial intelligence, inasmuch as China possesses a great many researchers.

英伟达大体上支持向中国出口部分芯片认为此举有助于为该项技术构建美国生态系统,并在人工智能领域缔结更为开放的关系盖因中国拥有大量研究人员

In both the United States and China, the growing and increasingly formidable power of artificial intelligence has served as a wake-up call for senior officials and policymakers alike.

在美国与中国,人工智能那与日俱增、愈发凌厉的威力,无不令高层官员与政策制定者为之警醒。

In an article published on Sunday, the head of China's Ministry of State Security cautioned that artificial intelligence poses a multitude of threats to the nation, spanning domains that range from political and ideological security to cyberattacks.

中国国家安全部负责人于周日撰文警告称,人工智能对国家构成了诸多威胁,其范畴涵盖政治与意识形态安全乃至网络攻击。

In his article, Chen Yixin contends that artificial intelligence, once exploited by those with "ulterior motives," could pose a threat to China's political and ideological security, and he explicitly names the powerful AI models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI.

陈一新在其文章中主张人工智能一旦为“别有用心”之徒所利用或将对中国的政治与意识形态安全构成威胁并明确点名Anthropic与OpenAI所研发的强大人工智能模型。

The article asserts that these models could be used to "weaponize" cybersecurity vulnerabilities, thereby endangering China's critical information infrastructure.

文章称这些模型可能被用以将网络安全漏洞“武器化”进而危及中国关键信息基础设施

Paul Triolo, a partner at the DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, points out that several other recent, unrelated AI-related incidents have likewise stirred considerable anxiety in the field of AI governance in China, among them an AI vulnerability in WeChatChina's pivotal messaging app, which, beyond messaging, also doubles as a payment service and performs numerous other functionsthat a US security firm recently disclosed.

DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group合伙人保罗·特里奥罗指出近期另有数起与人工智能相关的独立事件,在中国人工智能治理领域引发了诸多忧虑其中涵盖一家美国安全公司新近披露的、中国关键即时通讯应用微信所存在的人工智能漏洞——该应用除即时通讯外尚兼具支付服务及其他多项功能

Although Chinese officials proclaimed, following the mid-May summit between Trump and Xi in Beijing, that the United States and China had reached a consensus on initiating dialogue regarding the development and governance of artificial intelligence, substantive progress has been scant.

尽管中国官员在特朗普5月中旬与习近平于北京举行峰会之后宣称美中双方已就人工智能的发展与治理达成开展对话的共识,然而实质性进展却寥寥无几

At the same time, China and the United States have consistently joined forces with like-minded countries to build artificial intelligence alliances.

与此同时,中美两国始终在携手理念相契的国家,共同构建人工智能联盟。

In July, China launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, with an initial founding membership of 29 countries, including Russia and Pakistan, aimed at advancing global AI governance.

7月中国发起世界人工智能合作组织初始创始成员国计29个涵盖俄罗斯巴基斯坦旨在推进全球人工智能治理

This month, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the BRICS nations to accelerate the construction of a global AI governance framework and to build an open-source AI community.

本月中国国家主席习近平敦促金砖国家加速构建全球人工智能治理框架打造开源人工智能社区

Some political observers interpret this China-led organization as a response to the US-led "Pax Silica" initiativelaunched last year, it focuses on deepening collaboration with Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries in the AI supply chain.

部分政治观察家将这一由中国主导的组织解读为对美方所主导的“硅和平”倡议的回应——后者于去年启动,着力深化与日本、英国、澳大利亚等国在人工智能供应链领域的协作。

During an exclusive interview on CBS's "Face the Nation," Amodei was asked what he anticipated from the meeting between Trump and Xi in the realm of artificial intelligence.

在接受哥伦比亚广播公司《面向全国》节目专访之际阿莫代伊被询及对特朗普与习近平会晤在人工智能领域有何期许

He responded, "A far more consequential undertaking would be to jointly impose a ceiling on the rate at which artificial intelligence evolves."

他回应道,“更具长远意义的举措将是共同为人工智能的演进速率设定上限。”

He noted, however, that such a move would in all likelihood prove exceedingly difficult.

然而他同时指出此举恐将极为艰难

On the eve of the forthcoming meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping, an account affiliated with China's official media, "Yuyuantantian," recently published a post on social media, the wording of which was likewise measured and restrained.

在特朗普与习近平即将会晤之际,与中国官方媒体存在关联的账号“玉渊谭天”近日于社交媒体发布帖文,其措辞同样审慎克制。

The post asserted: "Only if the United States takes the lead in demonstrating that safety rules are equally binding on its own model companies can substantive consultations between the US and China become possible."

帖子声称:“唯有美国率先证实安全规则对其本国模型企业具有同等约束力美中之间方有可能展开实质性磋商。”

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