考研英语外刊：人工智能如何传播虚假信息

Now, researchers at the world’s top artificial intelligence labs are honing technology that can mimic how humans write, which could potentially help disinformation campaigns go undetected by generating huge amounts of subtly different messages.

Tech giants like Facebook and governments around the world are struggling to deal with disinformation, from misleading posts about vaccines to incitement of sectarian violence. As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, experts worry that disinformation generated by A.I. could make an already complex problem bigger and even more difficult to solve.

In recent months, two prominent labs — OpenAI in San Francisco and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle — have built particularly powerful examples of this technology. Both have warned that it could become increasingly dangerous.

单词笔记：

1. artificial    英 [ˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃl]   美 [ˌɑːrtɪˈfɪʃl]  

adj.人工的;人造的;假的;人为的;非自然的;虚假的;假装的

派生词： artificiality n.  artificially adv.

2. hone    英 [həʊn]   美 [hoʊn]  

v.磨练，训练(尤指技艺);磨(刀);把(刀)磨快

第三人称单数： hones 复数： hones 现在分词： honing 过去式： honed 过去分词： honed

3. mimic    英 [ˈmɪmɪk]   美 [ˈmɪmɪk]  

v.模仿(人的言行举止);(尤指)做滑稽模仿;(外表或行为举止)像，似

n.会模仿的人(或动物)

第三人称单数： mimics 复数： mimics 现在分词： mimicking 过去式： mimicked 过去分词： mimicked

4. potentially    英 [pə'tenʃəli]   美 [pə'tenʃəli]            adv.潜在地

5. subtly    英 ['sʌtli]  

adv.巧妙地;微妙地;难解地;狡猾地

6. vaccine    英 [ˈvæksiːn]   美 [vækˈsiːn]  

n.疫苗;菌苗          复数： vaccines

7. incitement    英 [ɪnˈsaɪtmənt]   美 [ɪnˈsaɪtmənt]  

n.煽动;鼓动          复数： incitements

8. sectarian    英 [sekˈteəriən]   美 [sekˈteriən]  

adj.(宗教)教派的，派性的          复数： sectarians

9. prominent     英 [ˈprɒmɪnənt]   美 [ˈprɑːmɪnənt]  

adj.重要的;著名的;杰出的;显眼的;显著的;突出的;凸现的

派生词： prominently adv.

10. increasingly    英 [ɪnˈkriːsɪŋli]   美 [ɪnˈkriːsɪŋli]  

adv.越来越多地;不断增加地