2023年12月英语四级听力真题 卷二 文章1

Passage One

文章1

Artificial intelligence agents play ever more influential roles in our lives.

人工智能代理在我们的生活中扮演着越来越有影响力的角色。

They do everything from suggesting new friends to recommending purchases.

从推荐新朋友到推荐商品，他们无所不包。

They're even beginning to drive our cars. Another role that they are expected to take over is negotiating on our behalf in commercial transactions or legal disputes.

他们甚至开始驾驶我们的汽车。另一个期望他们接手的角色是在商业交易或法律纠纷中代表我们进行谈判。

So, it's important to know whether using an artificial intelligence agent might affect how we negotiate. Research indicates that it does.

所以，重要的是要知道使用人工智能代理是否可能影响我们的谈判方式。研究表明确实如此。

In a new study, participants were told to imagine that they were negotiating for something important to them, like a house.

在一项新的研究中，参与者被要求想象他们正在为一些对他们来说很重要的东西谈判，比如一栋房子。

Next, they were told either that they would negotiate for themselves, or they would program an artificial intelligence agent to negotiate for them.

接下来，他们被告知，要么他们自己谈判，要么他们将编写一个人工智能代理程序来为他们谈判。

Participants then completed a survey indicating how tough, deceptive and pleasant or otherwise they wanted to be, or wanted their agent to be, in the negotiations.

然后，参与者完成了一项调查，表明他们希望自己或他们的代理人在谈判中表现得多么强硬、虚伪、愉快或其他。

For example, participants could choose to be tough by making an opening demand far greater than what they'd be willing to accept.

例如，参与者可以选择强硬一点，提出一个远高于他们愿意接受的开放要求。

They could also choose to express sympathy with their opponent to appear pleasant.

他们也可以选择对他们的对手表示同情，以显得愉快。

But they could also indicate that they —or their agent —would strategically express anger toward the opponent to gain advantage, or they could opt to convey dissatisfaction with the encounter so that the other party would think they were losing interest.

但他们也可以表明，他们——或他们的代理人——会有策略地向对手表达愤怒，以获得优势，或者他们可以选择表达对遭遇的不满，这样对方就会认为他们失去了兴趣。

These are both examples of deceptive strategies.

这些都是欺骗策略的例子。

Participants were more willing to employ deceptive strategies when assigned an agent to negotiate on their behalf.

参与者更愿意采用欺骗性的策略时，指定代理人代表他们进行谈判。

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

问题16到18是基于你刚刚听到的这篇文章。

Question16. What does the passage say about artificial intelligence agents?

关于人工智能代理，这篇文章说了什么？

Question17. What does the new study want to find out about using an artificial intelligence agent?

关于使用人工智能代理，这项新研究想要发现什么?

Question18. What did participants tend to do when assigned an AI agent to negotiate on their behalf?

当参与者被指派一名人工智能代理代表他们进行谈判时，他们倾向于做什么?

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