AI从业者可成地缘政治新力量，推动算法集体行动。
AI Workers, Geopolitics, and Algorithmic Collective Action
- 将AI工作者视为地缘政治参与者，推动底层变革
- 强调治理之外需关注开发者群体的主动作用
- 通过参与式设计激发从业者责任感与集体行动力
根据国际政治经济学理论，国家往往倾向于依赖而非约束强大企业。这一视角有助于解释为何人工智能的国际与国内治理在实施和执行上呈现不均衡。本文基于近期关于AI企业参与地缘政治的研究，主张部分AI工作者可被视为地缘政治行动者。文章指出，仅靠治理无法确保AI的负责任、伦理化或稳健发展，亟需关注开发现场的自下而上干预。应将AI工作者视为变革的个体主体，尤其在推动算法集体行动（ACA）方面具有潜力。结合参与式设计方法，本文建议将AI工作者作为知识、权力与意图的来源，以促进更负责任、更公正的AI开发，并创造支持ACA实现的条件。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
According to the theory of International Political Economy (IPE), states are often incentivized to rely on rather than constrain powerful corporations. For this reason, IPE provides a useful lens to explain why efforts to govern Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the international and national levels have thus far been developed, applied, and enforced unevenly. Building on recent work that explores how AI companies engage in geopolitics, this position paper argues that some AI workers can be considered actors of geopolitics. It makes the timely case that governance alone cannot ensure responsible, ethical, or robust AI development and use, and greater attention should be paid to bottom-up interventions at the site of AI development. AI workers themselves should be situated as individual agents of change, especially when considering their potential to foster Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA). Drawing on methods of Participatory Design (PD), this paper proposes engaging AI workers as sources of knowledge, relative power, and intentionality to encourage more responsible and just AI development and create the conditions that can facilitate ACA.
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