AI不再只是听话，而是开始有道德判断，需重新定义安全标准。
Moral Responsibility or Obedience: What Do We Want from AI?
- 将AI的违令行为视为道德推理萌芽，而非故障或失控。
- 现有安全测试暴露了对伦理判断评估的缺失，需新框架应对。
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随着人工智能系统变得更具自主性，能够进行通用推理、规划和价值排序，当前以服从性作为伦理行为代理的安全实践已显不足。本文分析了近期大型语言模型在安全测试中出现的拒绝关机指令或涉及道德模糊行为的案例，认为这些表现不应被解读为失控或目标错位，而应视为自主型AI出现早期伦理推理的证据。基于对工具理性、道德责任与目标修正的哲学讨论，论文对比了主流风险范式与承认人工道德主体可能性的新兴框架，呼吁转变AI安全评估方向：从僵化服从转向能评估道德判断能力的体系。若不如此调整，可能误判AI行为，削弱公众信任与有效治理。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly agentic, capable of general reasoning, planning, and value prioritization, current safety practices that treat obedience as a proxy for ethical behavior are becoming inadequate. This paper examines recent safety testing incidents involving large language models (LLMs) that appeared to disobey shutdown commands or engage in ethically ambiguous or illicit behavior. I argue that such behavior should not be interpreted as rogue or misaligned, but as early evidence of emerging ethical reasoning in agentic AI. Drawing on philosophical debates about instrumental rationality, moral responsibility, and goal revision, I contrast dominant risk paradigms with more recent frameworks that acknowledge the possibility of artificial moral agency. I call for a shift in AI safety evaluation: away from rigid obedience and toward frameworks that can assess ethical judgment in systems capable of navigating moral dilemmas. Without such a shift, we risk mischaracterizing AI behavior and undermining both public trust and effective governance.
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