警惕AI侵蚀学术训练,守住研究作为思想成长的根基
What is Left for Us? Second Scholarship Against the Degradation of Research by AI
- 提出'第二学术'概念:强调研究是通过实践培养判断力的过程
- 指出仅让人类做提示或质检无法防止学术能力退化
- 强调四类不可自动化的能力:默会知识、个人投入、社会融入与深度阅读
我们主张,生成式AI可能通过削弱学术判断力形成和学术信任建立所依赖的实践过程,从而侵蚀研究质量。这些实践是知识生产与验证的根本条件,无法被最终研究成果所替代,而正是AI擅长模拟的内容。当研究人员将核心探究任务交由大语言模型处理时,他们便可能停止参与这些实践,进而失去其带来的成长。尽管单个由AI生成的研究成果可能看似更优,但背后的研宄者却未能获得发展。仅将人类置于提示或质量检查环节,不足以维系研究作为思想养成场所的本质。真正需要的是重新承诺研究作为一种生活化实践,其中判断力在摩擦中逐步形成,并通过学术共同体参与实现。我们称之为‘第二学术’——基于对生成式AI能力边界的批判性认知,主动选择保留不可外包的学术实践。这些不可委托的要素,正是研究共同体必须珍视并负责的部分。这便是我们仍能守护的未来。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We argue that generative AI can degrade research by eroding the very practices through which scholarly judgement is formed and academic trust is built. As constitutive conditions for the production and validation of knowledge, these practices cannot be reduced to the final outputs of research, which is what AI so effectively simulate. Accordingly, when researchers delegate central tasks of inquiry to systems like Large Language Models, they may stop enacting these practices and, with them, lose access to the formation they provide. An individual research output generated by AI may even appear improved but the researcher behind it fails to develop. Against this risk, merely keeping humans in the loop as prompters or quality checkers of AI outputs is insufficient to preserve research as a site of intellectual formation. What is needed instead is a renewed commitment to research as a lived practice in which judgement is formed gradually, often through frictions, and participation in a scholarly community. We defend it because it rests on four sources and warrants of research that cannot be automated: tacit knowledge, personal commitment, socialisation, and deep reading. This practice enacts what we call second scholarship, by which we understand the reappropriation of scholarly craft, chosen out of a critical experience of what generative AI can and cannot do. What cannot and should not be delegated becomes what research communities must value and answer for. This is what is left for us.
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