arXiv:2604.28125cs.AIcs.CY2026-04中稿 · IJES 2026

AI手语翻译工具在盲视聋人群体文化下,强化了听觉霸权与效率崇拜。

Normativity and Productivism: Ableist Intelligence? A Degrowth Analysis of AI Sign Language Translation Tools for Deaf People

  • 以技术理性标准化手语,忽略聋人社群文化与语用差异
  • 模型依赖有偏数据,缺乏聋人参与设计,导致文化误读
  • 批判性提出AI应为去增长、反压迫的包容性技术,非效率工具

手语无论地域或口音差异,始终面临口语主导与听觉中心主义的持续审视。当前缺乏可及沟通渠道,使依赖手语者处境艰难。主流AI系统多为识别与翻译模型,旨在实现无缝准确转换,却基于有偏数据构建,且未纳入聋人社群意见。这些系统被听力者广泛使用却无视手语中蕴含的文化、语义与俚语内涵。该现象可借埃鲁尔的「技术体系」与「技术欺骗」理论分析:技术将语言简化为可量化数据与数学表达,追求利润而消解真实沟通条件,扭曲聋人的人类经验。此过程塑造出标准化、批量化的‘理想人类’模型,要求人适应技术而非反之,体现技术对人的异化。最终,这类系统非但未能解放,反而加剧孤立,故本文主张将其视为『能力主义智能』,因其强化了手语的边缘化与羞辱性地位。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Sign languages, of any geographical or accentual variation, understandably face continuous scrutiny under the ever present popularity of verbal dictation and audism. Through this, many potential problems arise with the current lack of accessible communication for those who rely on such sign languages for essential conversation. Such AI systems regularly take the form of recognition and interpretation models, designed to provide seamless and accurate translation. In reality these systems are built from biased data and created without any input from deaf communities. Such models are widely used and accepted by their hearing counterparts who remain ignorant to the inherent culture, semantics and colloquial language present in gestural language systems. This phenomenon is best analysed under the scope of The Technological System and Technological bluff by Ellul. Indeed, what is at play here is the standardization of language by technicians into what can be captured by technique: data, statistics, a mathematical language. For that AI technique to exist, sign language must be rationalized, in a search for profit that annihilates the conditions for communication and fails to capture the human experience of the deaf person. By that process, it presents normative effects, creating a model of Man, standardized, massified, and who has to adapt to the tool and technical milieu instead of the other way around, which we assume should have been the goal of such a technology. Technique thus reshapes what it means to be human, to submit deaf people to the goals of productivity and efficiency. In doing so, it exhibits clear counter productivity, alienating instead of emancipating, isolating instead of nourishing human relationships. Therefore this paper argues for the idea of AI as Ableist Intelligence, as such systems seek to emphasise the humiliated and marginalised nature of sign.

AI伦理手语翻译去增长能力主义

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