AI在教育中正重塑知识建构方式,可能削弱教师的专业判断力。
Beyond Tools: Generative AI as Epistemic Infrastructure in Education
- 将AI视为知识基础设施而非工具,分析其对认知能力的影响
- 发现AI助教导致认知操作替代专业判断,削弱教学敏感性与习惯养成
- 适合关注教育AI伦理、人机协作与教师专业发展的研究者
人工智能系统正越来越多地嵌入人类传统上自主进行知识形成与验证的实践活动中。本文主张,理解AI对认知主体性的影响,需将其视为认知基础设施而非中立工具。基于技术中介与分布式认知理论,提出一个分析框架,强调三个关键条件:支持熟练认知行为的能力、促进认知敏感性的支持,以及对习惯形成的潜在影响。将该框架应用于教育领域中的AI备课与反馈工具,发现存在认知替代现象:尽管能高效完成教学任务,但这些系统执行认知操作时并未维持熟练的认知行为、认知敏感性或美德性习惯的养成,可能阻碍专业判断力的培育。研究为人工智能与人类主体性之间的哲学争论提供具体机制解释,并提出有助于维持而非取代人类认知主体性的设计原则。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
AI systems are increasingly embedded in practices where humans have traditionally exercised epistemic agency, the capacity to actively engage in knowledge formation and validation. This paper argues that understanding AI's impact on epistemic agency requires analyzing these systems as epistemic infrastructures rather than as neutral tools. Drawing on theories of technological mediation and distributed cognition, I advance a framework that foregrounds how AI systems reconfigure the conditions under which epistemic agency can be exercised. The framework specifies three analytical conditions: affordances for skilled epistemic actions, support for epistemic sensitivity, and implications for habit formation. I apply this framework to AI systems deployed in education, a domain where epistemic agency is both professionally essential and ethically significant. Analysis of AI lesson planning and feedback tools reveals patterns of epistemic substitution: while useful for efficiently handling teaching tasks, these systems perform cognitive operations without sustaining skilled epistemic actions, epistemic sensitivity, or virtuous habit formation, potentially preventing the cultivation of professional judgment that relies on these practices. The findings contribute to philosophical debates about AI and human agency by specifying mechanisms through which infrastructural embedding shapes epistemic possibilities, and offer design principles for AI systems that sustain rather than supplant human epistemic agency.
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