arXiv:2501.10390cs.CYcs.AI2025-01被引 8

为AI的环境影响建立伦理框架,推动技术设计更负责任。

Towards an Environmental Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

  • 从环境正义三维度构建AI伦理评估标准
  • 强调生态后果应纳入技术决策考量
  • 适合关注可持续科技与数字伦理的研究者

近年来,大量研究揭示了人工智能(AI)的环境影响:训练和部署AI系统需消耗大量能源与资源,其输出可能引发对环境产生负面影响的决策与行为。这一新认知催生了新的伦理问题:在何种情况下开发AI是正当的?如何在设计中考虑其环境影响?然而,目前AI的环境影响仍缺乏伦理审视,主流AI伦理聚焦于透明度、隐私、安全、责任与偏见等议题。本文基于环境正义理论,区分分配正义、程序正义与承认正义三个维度,提出评估AI系统生态影响的伦理准则,拓展了以人类为中心的AI伦理范畴,将动物与生态系统等非人类主体纳入考量,为构建环境公正的AI系统提供理论依据。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In recent years, much research has been dedicated to uncovering the environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), showing that training and deploying AI systems require large amounts of energy and resources, and the outcomes of AI may lead to decisions and actions that may negatively impact the environment. This new knowledge raises new ethical questions, such as: When is it (un)justifiable to develop an AI system, and how to make design choices, considering its environmental impact? However, so far, the environmental impact of AI has largely escaped ethical scrutiny, as AI ethics tends to focus strongly on themes such as transparency, privacy, safety, responsibility, and bias. Considering the environmental impact of AI from an ethical perspective expands the scope of AI ethics beyond an anthropocentric focus towards including more-than-human actors such as animals and ecosystems. This paper explores the ethical implications of the environmental impact of AI for designing AI systems by drawing on environmental justice literature, in which three categories of justice are distinguished, referring to three elements that can be unjust: the distribution of benefits and burdens (distributive justice), decision-making procedures (procedural justice), and institutionalized social norms (justice as recognition). Based on these tenets of justice, we outline criteria for developing environmentally just AI systems, given their ecological impact.

AI伦理环境正义可持续性

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