2026-07-30T21:33:06.788Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：珍妮弗·汉斯勒
发布时间：2026年7月30日，美国东部时间下午5:33
由路透社提供
美国国务院周四表示，其在本周一场国际会议上使用的非洲地图存在全部标注错误，这是“令人遗憾的失误”。
这张地图在里约热内卢举行的2026年艾滋病大会期间展出，标注了非洲大陆六个国家：尼日利亚、莫桑比克、乌干达、科特迪瓦、马拉维和喀麦隆。但从名称指向地图位置的连线没有一个标注正确。地图将沿海的尼日利亚标为内陆国；位于非洲东南部的莫桑比克被标在了非洲之角；科特迪瓦的位置也被放在了大陆的错误一侧。
这张出错地图的照片被艾滋病专家艾米丽·巴斯在Substack的一篇帖子中分享。据路透社分析，这张地图带有“表明其使用OpenAI工具制作的人工智能水印”。
一名国务院发言人周四表示：“这是一名团队成员在2026年艾滋病大会展示前仓促修改幻灯片时造成的令人遗憾的失误。”
“我们对给与会者，包括我们的非洲合作伙伴，造成的混乱和不实表述承担全部责任，”该发言人说道。
自唐纳德·特朗普总统再次就职以来，美国国务院大幅削减了全球卫生资助资金，并进行了机构重组，导致大量职业专家失业。
前国务院及美国国家安全委员会非洲事务官员卡梅伦·哈德森表示，这一失误“反映了当你解雇三分之一的国务院工作人员、取消多层官僚体系，让资历过浅的员工在监督不足的情况下开展工作时会发生什么”。
“裁撤员工和专业团队不仅会带来成本节约，还会在声誉和效能方面付出真实代价，”他在X平台上发帖称。“我怀疑很多人其实并不在意，因为他们会说这只是非洲的事，但同样的情况也发生在试图与伊朗谈判核协议的团队身上。这应该会让所有人感到担忧。”
State Department says it made ‘an unfortunate error’ when it mislabeled countries on map of Africa
2026-07-30T21:33:06.788Z / CNN
By Jennifer Hansler
PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2026, 5:33 PM ET
A screen shows a US government map of Africa with mislabeled countries during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 26, 2026, in this picture obtained by Reuters.
From Reuters
The US State Department on Thursday said its use of a map that incorrectly labeled all the countries it identified on a map of Africa at an international conference this week was “an unfortunate error.”
The map was shown during an event at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro. It highlighted six countries on the continent: Nigeria, Mozambique, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, and Cameroon. Not one of them was correctly identified by lines pointing from the names to the positions on the map. It showed coastal Nigeria as landlocked. Mozambique, which is in the southeast of the continent, was shown in the Horn of Africa. Cote d’Ivoire was shown on the wrong side of the continent.
A photo of the errant map was shared in a Substack post from AIDS expert Emily Bass. According to an analysis from Reuters, the map contained “an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools.”
A State Department spokesperson said Thursday that “this was an unfortunate error caused by a team member who hastily altered the slide deck immediately before the presentation at the AIDS 2026 Conference.”
“We take full responsibility for the confusion and misrepresentation it caused for attendees, including our African partners,” the spokesperson said.
Since President Donald Trump took office again, the State Department has significantly cut its global health funding and underwent a restructuring which has seen a significant number of career experts lose their jobs.
Cameron Hudson, a former State Department and NSC official on Africa, said that the mistake is “a reflection of what happens when you fire ⅓ of the State Department, eliminate multiple layers of bureaucracy and have too junior staff performing work under-supervised.”
“There isn’t just a cost savings when eviscerating staff and expertise. There’s a real cost in reputation and effectiveness,” he posted on X. “I suspect many people don’t actually care because they say it’s Africa, but the same thing is happening with teams trying to negotiate nuclear deals with Iran. That should concern everyone.”
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