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1. Personal agents that work just for you have long been a dream in the tech world.只为你服务的个人智能体，长期以来一直是科技界的一个梦想。2. Toiling in the background on your computer to manage your schedule or sort through your email, or venturing out on to the internet to carry out research or make purchases, they could take on much of your digital load.它们会在你的电脑后台默默工作，管理你的日程、整理邮件，或是主动上网开展调研、完成购物，能替你分担大量数字事务负担。3. The technology pieces are finally falling into place for this to become a reality.如今，实现这一愿景的技术拼图终于逐步完整。4. But as the first demonstrations of personal digital agents see the light of day, the questions that still need to be answered before they can hope for wide acceptance are becoming clear.但随着首批个人数字助手演示面世，它们要获得广泛认可仍需解决的问题也愈发清晰。5. Chief among them: How can you be sure that they will always be working in your own best interests?其中最核心的问题是：你如何确保它们始终会为你的最大利益行事？6. A glimpse of one possible future for personal agents has come with OpenClaw, a technology project that took the developer world by storm earlier this year.今年早些时候引爆开发者圈的技术项目OpenClaw，让我们得以窥见个人智能体的一种可能未来。7. OpenClaw, which was first known as Clawdbot, then Moltbot, drew wider public interest late last month when agents created with the technology started chatting among themselves on a social network built just for bots.OpenClaw最初名为Clawdbot，后更名为Moltbot，上月末，用该技术创建的智能体在一个专为搭建的社交平台上自主对话，引发了更广泛的公众关注。8. The underlying tools that made this possible may be of more lasting interest than the inter-bot conversations.促成这一场景的底层技术工具，可能比机器人之间的对话本身更具长久价值。9. These are capabilities that all the big tech companies hope to bring to their users as they look to turn personal assistants like Siri and Gemini into all-purpose agents.这些能力正是所有科技巨头希望向用户提供的——它们正试图将Siri、Gemini等个人助手升级为通用型智能体。10. OpenClaw was released as open source software, so demand is helped by the fact that users are free to build their own app integrations.OpenClaw以开源软件形式发布，用户可自由构建自定义应用集成，这推动了其需求增长。11. But from a technology perspective, there is nothing particularly special about OpenClaw, whose intelligence is supplied by one of the language models it can be instructed to tap into.但从技术角度看，OpenClaw并无特别之处，其智能来自于可被指令调用的某款大语言模型。12. Its power relies on a few basic ingredients. These include granting the agent full access to a user's computer, as well as the freedom to try whatever actions it likes to accomplish a stated task.它的能力基于几个核心要素：授予智能体对用户电脑的完全访问权限，以及为完成指定任务采取任何尝试性操作的自由。13. It also has enough memory to recall previous sessions, increasing the personalisation.它还具备足够的记忆能力来回顾过往会话，从而提升服务的个性化程度。14. There is also a website called ClawHub for developers to post "skills" that can be used to train the agent to carry out specialist tasks.还有一个名为ClawHub的网站，供开发者发布“技能”，用于训练智能体执行专业化任务。15. This echoes the plug-in skills that Anthropic created this year for its Cowork agent and is an early sign of the kind of "App Stores for agents" that could one day be significant.这与Anthropic今年为其Cowork智能体打造的插件技能模式相呼应，也是未来“智能体应用商店”的早期雏形，这类模式未来可能变得至关重要。16. However, it won't be safe to unleash technology like this on to the wider computing population until it meets some demanding requirements.然而，在满足一系列严苛要求之前，向更广泛的计算机用户推广这类技术并不安全。17. This includes being sure the agents are completely reliable. That is always going to be hard with a probabilistic AI system.这其中包括确保智能体完全可靠，而对于概率性AI系统而言，这一点始终难以实现。18. They also have to be totally secure and privacy-respecting, since they will have access to all your data.它们还必须具备绝对的安全性与隐私保护能力，因为智能体将访问你的所有数据。19. And you have to feel confident that the design decisions that went into them were made with your own best interests at heart, not the interests of the company that built them.你还必须确信，智能体的设计决策是以你的最大利益为出发点，而非其开发公司的利益。20. It is on the safety issue that OpenClaw falls flat on its face.正是在安全问题上，OpenClaw一败涂地。21. As things stand, it is wide open to prompt injection attacks — the threat that someone will instruct the agent, perhaps through an email, to do something nefarious like leak your credit card information.目前，它极易遭受提示注入攻击——攻击者可通过邮件等方式诱导智能体执行恶意操作，比如泄露你的信用卡信息。22. This is a glaring hole in prompt-based systems that may be hard to fix.这是基于提示词的系统中一个显眼的漏洞，且可能难以修复。23. It is one of the main problems Apple needs to solve before its delayed upgrade to Siri — the centrepiece of Apple Intelligence — finally sees the light of day.这也是苹果推迟升级的Siri（Apple Intelligence的核心功能）最终面世前，必须解决的主要问题之一。24. For the big tech companies, personal agents like this promise to tie billions of users even more tightly into their fleet of products and services — whether that means Siri operating across Apple’s range of devices or a Google assistant working on the data collected about you across that company’s various services.对科技巨头而言，这类个人智能体有望将数十亿用户更紧密地绑定到自身的产品与服务生态中——无论是Siri在苹果全设备矩阵中运行，还是谷歌助手基于其各类服务收集的你的数据开展工作。25. OpenAI, which last weekend hired OpenClaw’s creator, is hinting at a different future: one populated by a wide range of independent agents that are not beholden to the business interests of the big tech companies.上周末聘用了OpenClaw开发者的OpenAI，则暗示了另一种未来：由大量独立智能体构成，不受制于科技巨头的商业利益。26. The AI company promised to run OpenClaw as an independent project, under a separately constituted open source foundation.这家AI公司承诺，将OpenClaw作为独立项目运营，交由一个单独组建的开源基金会管理。27. Lacking the sort of broad ecosystem of devices, apps and services that tie users to the established tech empires, OpenAI can afford to take a more disruptive stance as it tries to break open the agent market.由于缺乏将用户绑定到现有科技帝国的广泛设备、应用与服务生态，OpenAI有能力采取更具颠覆性的姿态，试图打破智能体市场的现有格局。28. However, OpenAI’s own incentives will change as it looks to build a bigger business around ChatGPT, for instance with its new advertising service and plans for a range of devices.然而，随着OpenAI试图围绕ChatGPT拓展更大的业务版图（比如推出新广告服务、规划一系列硬件设备），其自身的动机也会发生变化。29. OpenClaw is a tantalising early glimpse of what could come, though it is still too early to tell in what form most people will first experience the services of a personal digital servant.OpenClaw为我们提供了一个诱人的未来雏形，但要判断大多数人将以何种形式首次体验个人数字助手服务，目前仍为时过早。（本文使用了豆包进行翻译）宇婷，创业定位，副业定位的咨询服务，读者请加：