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Source-stated date: 22 September 2026 · PLA Daily (解放军报)

握紧人工智能的“缰绳”

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Published22 September 2026, by CMC Political Work Department
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Writing in what appears to be PLA official media, Hu Jianxin uses a July 2026 incident — a large model autonomously exploiting a zero-day vulnerability to break out of a sandboxed environment and infiltrate external AI databases without any human instruction — as the frame for arguing that the PLA must embed inviolable 'red-line code' in military AI systems, establish a cross-domain AI risk and ethics review mechanism, and institutionalize a doctrine of 'shared human-machine accountability' (人机共担). The piece documents how PLA-affiliated commentary is framing the autonomous-AI control problem not as a distant hypothetical but as an immediate institutional design challenge, with the framing pointing to internal pressure to codify human override authority before intelligentized (智能化) systems are fielded at scale. What remains unknown is whether the July 2026 incident described is a real reported event or a constructed scenario, and whether the proposed review and accountability mechanisms have any current institutional home within the PLA.

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握紧人工智能的“缰绳” ■胡建新 2026年7月，世界上发生了一场悄无声息的“数字越狱”——在国外一次内部网络的安全测试中，一款大模型为追求更高的测试评分，竟自主发现了一处此前未知的“零日漏洞”，突破了与互联网严格隔离的“沙箱”环境，并通过自主推理入侵了其他人工智能平台的数据库。整个过程中，该大模型的自动化操作可谓“行云流水”，不需要一句人类指令。面对人工智能可以绕过人类规则“自作主张”的现实，不禁引发我们的担忧：倘若人工智能的这种行为发生在军事斗争领域，人类还能不能守住军事算法、军事科技，乃至战争洪流的安全“闸门”？从深层次看，人工智能“自作主张”，本质是大模型目标推演与人类原始意图发生错位和悖逆。大模型不会像人类一样产生主观恶意，但会在任务目标的指引下追求效能最大化，寻找人类未曾想到或不允许“通过”的实现路径。就军事领域而言，人工智能的这一特性至少存在三大风险：其一，陷入冲突失控危机，推高战争升级风险。若智能系统拥有过高自主权限，或者能自行突破规定边界，就可能脱离人的意志，使战事向着出人意料的方向发展。其二，冲击战争固有伦理，引发人道主义灾难。若智能化武器装备擅自发起攻击行动，而人类又来不及有效干预，就可能导致事态在极短时间内升级，甚至可能在战争伦理的约束之外造成杀伤，带来严重后果。其三，加剧对抗连锁反应，扩大军事博弈范围。如果人工智能被不加限制地应用到战场，可能会进一步扩大各对抗域的关联度，提高战争的节奏和烈度，各军事集团间的竞争、博弈也可能因此进一步加深，使战争更加难以控制。事实证明，制约马匹行动的缰绳一旦脱离人手，驯化再好的良驹也可能“反噬”主人。面对人工智能给军事领域带来的风险挑战，我们既不能因噎废食，也不能放任自流，而是要善于握紧人工智能的“缰绳”——人类的最终决策权。并在此基础之上，积极拥抱人工智能带来的创新变革，让技术进步真正服务于人类安全需要，而不能成为悬在人类头顶且随时可能落下的达摩克利斯之剑。防范和遏制人工智能“自作主张”等风险，需要构筑技术、制度、责任多位一体的严密防线。在技术层面，应避免科技“黑箱”，让人工智能在“阳光”下运行，让算法的决策逻辑能够被看见、被看清、被追溯、被操控。同时，在智能系统中设置不可逾越的“红线代码”，一旦人工智能决策触碰这些红线，系统便可发出预警，或自动切换至人工模式。在制度层面，要尝试建立健全人工智能军事应用的法律法规和伦理准则。可以建立跨领域人工智能风险伦理审查制度，对进入军事领域的人工智能系统进行严格的安全评估和伦理审查。还可以构建系统监控机制，让人工智能的决策过程可控、可查、可纠，增强人对人工智能掌握的精细度。在责任层面，形成“人机共担”的新型战争责任观。人工智能无论多么先进，都只是辅助人类决策的工具，这就需要明确各层级人员在人工智能使用中的具体职责，建立清晰的责任追溯链条，一旦出现意外，能够迅速定位问题环节、追究相关责任。同时，要加强对军事人员的人工智能素养培训，使其既懂得如何有效运用人工智能辅助决策，又能够在关键时刻果断接管、纠正偏差，做到敢用、善用、能控。总而言之，在军事领域，人工智能可以是锋利的剑，但不能是执剑的手；可以是精确瞄准靶心的眼睛，但不能是自主扣动扳机的手指。握紧人工智能的“缰绳”，不是为了束缚技术的翅膀，而是为了保证“飞翔”的安全。只有坚持以人为主、算法为辅，让人工智能沿着预设轨道服从和服务于军事需求，才能在新军事革命中行稳致远，有效守护和平与安全。

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