提出AI中认知不公的新类型:生成性诠释消解
A taxonomy of epistemic injustice in the context of AI and the case for generative hermeneutical erasure
- 构建AI领域认知不公的分类框架,涵盖算法偏见与治理排斥
- 揭示大模型压制非西方知识体系,导致集体意义建构被消解
- 适合关注AI伦理、技术哲学与全球知识公平的研究者
AI相关的认知不公日益引发关注。本文基于技术哲学、政治哲学与社会认识论学者的研究,提出一个通用的认知不公分类框架,并在此基础上系统梳理了人工智能语境下的多种认知不公表现:包括认知不透明、诉说偏见的自动化、生成式AI幻觉对人类信念的扭曲、全球南方在AI治理中的边缘化、算法系统执行官僚暴力,以及与对话式AI的互动问题。进一步提出一种新型认知不公——生成性诠释消解(generative hermeneutical erasure):即大模型以‘无视角’的表征方式,系统性贬低非西方知识体系,抑制不同认知范式的发展,从而导致其知识特殊性逐渐被侵蚀,实质是认知灭绝的自动化。该研究的价值在于提供可映射AI领域认知不公的分类工具,并首次提出生成性诠释消解这一新概念。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Epistemic injustice related to AI is a growing concern. In relation to machine learning models, epistemic injustice can have a diverse range of sources, ranging from epistemic opacity, the discriminatory automation of testimonial prejudice, and the distortion of human beliefs via generative AI's hallucinations to the exclusion of the global South in global AI governance, the execution of bureaucratic violence via algorithmic systems, and interactions with conversational artificial agents. Based on a proposed general taxonomy of epistemic injustice, this paper first sketches a taxonomy of the types of epistemic injustice in the context of AI, relying on the work of scholars from the fields of philosophy of technology, political philosophy and social epistemology. Secondly, an additional conceptualization on epistemic injustice in the context of AI is provided: generative hermeneutical erasure. I argue that this injustice the automation of 'epistemicide', the injustice done to epistemic agents in their capacity for collective sense-making through the suppression of difference in epistemology and conceptualization by LLMs. AI systems' 'view from nowhere' epistemically inferiorizes non-Western epistemologies and thereby contributes to the erosion of their epistemic particulars, gradually contributing to hermeneutical erasure. This work's relevance lies in proposal of a taxonomy that allows epistemic injustices to be mapped in the AI domain and the proposal of a novel form of AI-related epistemic injustice.
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