AI算法正制造新型数字支配,威胁人人自由
Digital Domination: A Case for Republican Liberty in Artificial Intelligence
- 从共和自由视角分析算法如何暗中操控个体与政治
- 技术巨头可跨国影响选举,现有制度难以问责
- 强调需建立算法问责机制,保障真正自由
人工智能将不可预测地改变社会与政治生活,引发关于其发展与监管应遵循原则的思考。通过分析数字广告与社交媒体算法,本文指出人工智能已对共和主义自由(即免于不受约束权力的自由)构成重大威胁,因此在将人工智能融入社会时必须保护共和自由。个人层面,这些算法能无意识影响行为与思想,被影响者对所接触的算法缺乏控制力;政治层面,算法使科技公司高管及其他外国主体获得干预国内政治进程(如选举)的能力,而基于算法的平台具有跨国性且技术创新迅速,导致现有国家机构难以有效问责。在两个层面,人工智能都催生了一种新型不自由:数字支配。文章援引昆廷·斯金纳、菲利普·佩蒂特等共和主义理论家观点,主张个体必须具备对算法及其开发者进行问责的机制,方能实现真正自由。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize social and political life in unpredictable ways, raising questions about the principles that ought to guide its development and regulation. By examining digital advertising and social media algorithms, this article highlights how artificial intelligence already poses a significant threat to the republican conception of liberty -- or freedom from unaccountable power -- and thereby highlights the necessity of protecting republican liberty when integrating artificial intelligence into society. At an individual level, these algorithms can subconsciously influence behavior and thought, and those subject to this influence have limited power over the algorithms they engage. At the political level, these algorithms give technology company executives and other foreign parties the power to influence domestic political processes, such as elections; the multinational nature of algorithm-based platforms and the speed with which technology companies innovate make incumbent state institutions ineffective at holding these actors accountable. At both levels, artificial intelligence has thus created a new form of unfreedom: digital domination. By drawing on the works of Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit, and other republican theorists, this article asserts that individuals must have mechanisms to hold algorithms (and those who develop them) accountable in order to be truly free.
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