夜雨聆风01 文章选材
May 9TH-15TH ｜United States
【Para. 1】民主党支柱拉姆·伊曼纽尔看好AI
【Para. 2】他呼吁对AI采取监管措施
【Para. 3】AI引发不平等和竞争担忧
【Para. 4】AI发展过快，政客试图禁止或管控
【Para. 5】两大AI巨头的应对策略
【Para. 6】伊曼纽尔的政治主张
【Para. 7】他或将参选总统
03 原文音频
654 words ★★★★☆（难度评级）
The Democratic approach to AI is not all about bans
【Para.1】In almost every interview he does, Rahm Emanuel, a fixture at the top of Democratic politics for four decades, plays coy when asked about whether he plans to run for the presidency in 2028. What he is rarely asked is where he stands on what is likely to be one of the gnarliest issues of that race, artificial intelligence (AI). Call him a pillar of the party’s centrist old guard, his ideas on AI are up to the minute. “AI keeps me up at night,” he says.
【Para.2】In an interview for our Insider show, Mr Emanuel calls for a high-speed regulatory approach to AI. That contrasts with what the progressive wing of his party, led by Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont, wants—which is to jam on the brakes. Yet, like those to his left, Mr Emanuel is open to some sort of guaranteed income for those whose livelihoods are affected by the technology. Though he supports providing “a floor that people don’t fall below”, he worries that a guaranteed income could sap “meaning” from people’s lives. He doesn’t elaborate on ways to restore purpose.
【Para.3】The former ambassador, mayor and White House Mr Fix-it is struck by the widespread fears of inequality caused by AI. “The American people believe that there’s going to be five tech bros who will walk out like bandits,” he says, leaving everyone else in the lurch. “On one side, you can’t concede [AI] to China. On the other side, you can’t have the Wild West.” He is also worried that the scale of disruption AI causes will be more than that of other technological upheavals, such as railways, electricity and the internet.
【Para.4】Mr Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congresswoman, say AI is moving so fast Congress cannot keep up. They have proposed legislation to slap a temporary ban on the building of data centres used to train and run models. Mr Emanuel takes a different approach. Given the speed with which AI is evolving, he suggests creating a bipartisan regulatory task force that makes decisions in real time about its safety. He mentions Mythos, a new model from Anthropic, an AI lab, whose software capabilities pose staggering cyber-security risks. His ideas bear some resemblance to those of the Trump administration, which in response to Mythos has started to shift from a laissez-faire treatment of AI to considering ways to oversee the latest model releases.
【Para.5】The childhood ballet dancer pirouettes when discussing AI bosses. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk are “pissing on each other”, but he respects some of their ideas. He hails what he calls Mr Altman’s “New Deal,” a proposal from OpenAI whose most radical idea is a sovereign-wealth-style investment fund. Seeded by the AI industry, it would give everyone a stake in faster economic growth by distributing returns from investments made in producers and users of the technology. He also lauds Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, for standing up to the Pentagon in a fight over the use of its AI models for autonomous weaponry and mass surveillance.
【Para.6】Mr Emanuel, who served both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the White House, has a broader domestic agenda that is classic centrist stuff. He has plans for school reform, opposes tariffs, is nuanced on free trade and wants tax reform to make the system less generous to inherited wealth. He is dismissive of the redistributive agenda of the left of his party.
【Para.7】As for running for president, he remains non-committal. “We’ll see,” he says. But his enthusiasm appears to be rising. “One thing I do know is that candour, authenticity and strength are going to have a really high value. Nobody is going to [look at me] and say ‘there goes weak and woke’.”
05 检验题
Read the following text carefully and answer the questions below by choosing A, B, C or D.
21. According to Paragraphs 1 and 2, Rahm Emanuel ______.
[A] shares Sanders's view on halting AI development entirely
[B] believes universal basic income can fully address AI-induced job losses
[C] worries about AI and advocates rapid regulatory action while retaining purpose in life
[D] has officially declared his candidacy for the 2028 presidential election
22. Which of the following best represents Emanuel's position on AI governance as described in Paragraph 4?
[A] He supports Sanders and AOC's proposal to suspend data center construction.
[B] He favors a bipartisan regulatory task force capable of making real-time decisions on AI development.
[C] He believes the Trump administration's AI policies are fundamentally different from his own.
[D] He considers the Mythos model developed by Anthropic too dangerous to be deployed.
23. Emanuel's concerns about AI inequality in Paragraph 3 include all of the following EXCEPT ______.
[A] excessive concentration of AI power in a handful of technology entrepreneurs
[B] the risk of ceding AI leadership to China through inaction
[C] AI's potential for destruction exceeding that of previous technological revolutions
[D] the necessity of imposing an outright ban on all AI research and commercial deployment
24. The phrase “pissing on each other” in Paragraph 5, used to describe the relationship between Altman and Musk, most probably means ______.
[A] engaging in a public feud or rivalry
[B] collaborating on regulatory frameworks
[C] competing in the same consumer market
[D] exchanging technical expertise
25. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
[A] The Case for Banning AI: A Democratic Blueprint
[B] Why Progressives and Conservatives Cannot Agree on AI Regulation
[C] A Moderate Democrat's Vision for Pragmatic AI Governance
[D] The 2028 Election and the Future of American Technology Policy
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