ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE poses a double challenge(构成双重挑战) to the human mind. Not only will the most advanced models soon be able to think better than people, but AI has consequences for humanity which are so uncertain, so potentially vast and are approaching at such a rapid pace that even the best brains flinch.(不仅最先进的模型很快就能比人类思考得更好，而且AI对人类的影响如此不确定、如此潜在巨大、且以如此迅猛的速度逼近，以至于连最聪明的人都畏缩不前。) An example is Elon Musk.
人工智能对人类心智构成了双重挑战。最先进的模型不仅很快就能比人类思考得更好，而且AI对人类的影响如此不确定、如此潜在巨大、且以如此迅猛的速度逼近，以至于连最聪明的人都畏缩不前。埃隆·马斯克就是一个例子。
In our long interview with him this week, featured in The Insider and our Business section, the engineer and entrepreneur sets out(阐述，提出) two paradox(悖论，自相矛盾的说法)es and one contradiction. The first paradox is that one of the world’s most power-hungry(渴望权力的) tycoon(大亨，巨头)s is enthusiastically helping create a technology that he says will render(使成为，致使) him—and all other human beings—powerless after as little as five years. The second is that the world’s richest man says he is preparing for a world of infinite abundance(无限富足), where money, including his $750bn fortune, no longer matters. And the contradiction is that, despite these stated beliefs, Mr Musk continues to act as if they were not true.
在本周我们对他的长篇专访中（刊登于《内幕》和我们的商业版块），这位工程师兼企业家提出了两个悖论和一个矛盾。第一个悖论是：世界上最渴望权力的巨头之一，正热情地帮助创造一种技术，而他说这种技术将在短短五年内让他——以及所有其他人——变得无力。第二个悖论是：世界首富说他正在为一个无限富足的世界做准备，在那里，金钱——包括他7500亿美元的财富——不再重要。矛盾在于：尽管有这些公开宣称的信念，马斯克先生却继续表现得仿佛它们并不真实。
Mr Musk is divisive(引起分歧的，有争议的). His political views, disseminate(传播，散布)d to his 240m followers on X, strike many as plain-speaking and strike many more, including The Economist, as plainly bigoted(偏执的，顽固的). By his own admission, his attempt to use DOGE to scythe(用镰刀割，比喻大量削减) through the federal bureaucracy went wrong.
马斯克先生是个有争议的人物。他的政治观点通过X平台传播给2.4亿粉丝，在许多人看来是直言不讳，但在更多人——包括《经济学人》——看来则是赤裸裸的偏执。他自己也承认，他试图利用DOGE大刀阔斧地削减联邦官僚机构的做法出了问题。
Doomers and boomers
末日论者与繁荣论者