人类与AI共同演化可能引发知识退化,需警惕闭环反馈带来的信息瓶颈。
Human-AI Co-Evolution and Epistemic Collapse: A Dynamical Systems Perspective

- 构建人类与AI的耦合动力系统模型,分析三变量反馈机制。
- 发现三种动态状态:协同进化、脆弱平衡与退化收敛,后者导致多样性下降。
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大型语言模型正重塑知识生产方式,人类对AI在生成、摘要和推理中的依赖日益增加。现有研究多孤立探讨认知卸载与模型坍缩,本文提出统一视角:人类与语言模型通过使用、生成与再训练构成反馈回路,形成耦合动力系统。我们建立一个包含人类认知、数据质量与模型能力三个变量的最小模型,揭示该反馈可导致三种动态态:协同增强、脆弱平衡与退化收敛。模拟显示,过度依赖AI会触发向低多样性、次优均衡的相变。从信息论看,这一转变对应于人-AI回路中的涌现信息瓶颈,熵减少反映的是封闭回路中多样性与支持性的丧失,而非有益压缩。结果表明,AI发展轨迹不仅由模型设计决定,更受人机共演动态塑造。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping how knowledge is produced, with increasing reliance on AI systems for generation, summarization, and reasoning. While prior work has studied cognitive offloading in humans and model collapse in recursive training, these effects are typically considered in isolation. We propose a unified perspective: humans and language models form a coupled dynamical system linked by a feedback loop of usage, generation, and retraining. We introduce a minimal model with three variables -- human cognition, data quality, and model capability -- and show that this feedback can give rise to distinct dynamical regimes. Our analysis identifies three regimes: co-evolutionary enhancement, fragile equilibrium, and degenerative convergence. Through a simple simulation, we demonstrate that increasing reliance on AI can induce a transition toward a low-diversity, suboptimal equilibrium. From an information-theoretic perspective, this transition corresponds to an emergent information bottleneck in the human-AI loop, where entropy reduction reflects loss of diversity and support under closed-loop feedback rather than beneficial compression. These results suggest that the trajectory of AI systems is shaped not only by model design, but by the dynamics of human-AI co-evolution.
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