arXiv:2606.16167cs.AI2026-06

AI不仅需包容多元价值,更应揭示其隐含的本体论偏见。

AI Pluralism and the Worlds It Misses

  • 提出‘本体论扁平化’概念,指将复杂意义简化为技术指标
  • 通过三个城市AI案例展示多元方法如何影响模型行为
  • 设计PLG框架,帮助显化AI治理中的认知包容与程序正义

AI多元主义常被理解为如何体现多元价值观、偏好或用户需求。本文指出,这一视角不完整,因为AI系统还强加本体论:定义何为实体、关系、特征、伤害、益处及有效证据。本文提出‘本体论扁平化’——将具体、争议性且历史特定的意义,转化为受限的技术类别、代理变量、聚合规则或基准目标,并被视为中立且难以挑战。研究整合价值多元主义、多元对齐、参与式与民主化AI、程序正义、科技研究、问责研究,结合11位专家访谈及三个城市AI伴侣案例,揭示多元方法虽可改善或塑造模型行为,但仍会压缩类别、代理、聚合规则和修订权,使相关方缺乏程序地位。为此提出‘多元生命周期治理’(PLG)作为初步定性审计框架,用于记录本体论开放性、认识论包容性、程序权威、评估多元性与生命周期问责。PLG非验证评分工具,而是使多元AI的证据与治理条件可见的框架。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

AI pluralism is often framed as a problem of representing diverse values, preferences, users, or outputs. This paper argues that this framing is incomplete because AI systems also impose ontologies: they define what counts as an entity, relation, feature, harm, benefit, and valid form of evidence. We define ontological flattening as the conversion of situated, contested, and historically specific meanings into a restricted technical category, proxy, aggregation rule, or benchmark target that is treated as neutral and difficult to contest. The paper develops a bounded conceptual and qualitative synthesis across value pluralism, pluralistic alignment, participatory and democratic AI, procedural justice, science and technology studies, accountability research, aggregate themes from 11 expert interviews, and three urban AI companion cases. The cases illustrate how pluralistic methods can improve or structure model behavior while still compressing categories, proxies, aggregation rules, and revision rights before affected actors have procedural standing. We introduce Pluralistic Lifecycle Governance (PLG) as a preliminary qualitative audit scaffold for documenting ontological openness, epistemic inclusion, procedural authority, evaluation pluralism, and lifecycle accountability. PLG is not presented as a validated scoring instrument; it is a framework for making the evidence and governance conditions of pluralistic AI explicit.

AI伦理本体论治理框架多元主义

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