The writer is a professor and director of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and a former deputy assistant secretary at the US Department of Defense
本文作者是宾夕法尼亚大学(University of Pennsylvania)教授和该校智库佩里世界之家(Perry World House)主任，并曾担任美国国防部(DoD)副助理部长
Last Friday, the Pentagon announced that it was classifying AI lab Anthropic as a supply chain risk after contract negotiations broke down. The label meant that not only would Anthropic lose its government contracts but that it was now grouped with Chinese companies like Huawei as a threat to US national security.
上周五，五角大楼在合同谈判破裂后宣布将AI公司Anthropic列为供应链风险。这一标签意味着Anthropic不仅会失去美国政府的合同，还会被与华为(Huawei)等中国公司归为一类，被视为对美国国家安全构成威胁。
Less than 24 hours later, however, Anthropic’s technology was reported to have been used in Operation Epic Fury against Iran. The dissonance of the tech company being labelled a supply chain risk even as it aided the US military was the latest chapter of an unnecessary, yet arguably inevitable, saga as AI is increasingly incorporated into the military.
然而在不到24小时后，Anthropic的技术据报道被用于美国打击伊朗的史诗之怒行动(Operation Epic Fury)。这家科技公司在帮助美国军方的同时被贴上供应链风险的标签，这种矛盾的局面是随着AI日益融入军事领域而发生的不必要但或许不可避免的最新事件。