提出数字治国框架,应对算法时代治理的合法性与能力危机
Governing Well in the Algorithmic Age: The Foundations of Digital Statecraft
- 以双维度定义数字治国:治理数字系统与运用算法工具
- 提出十项原则,缺一即导致结构性治理失效
- 适合政策制定者、数字治理研究者深度思考制度重构
数字基础层(数据、算法、基础设施、平台、应用)正被治理,却缺乏充分的概念基础。治理能力与正当性同时错位、争议且结构缺失。本文引入‘数字治国’作为该新兴领域的核心概念,认为‘数字’重构了国家治理问题,而非简单扩展其范围。该概念包含两个维度:对数字系统的治国(国家对数字基础的权威与能力),以及借助数字系统的治国(算法工具作为治理手段)。其根基为技术一致性和合法权威,二者存在根本张力。由此推导出十项数字治国原则:公共利益优先、人机互补、可治理性设计、系统一致性、混合机构、适应性治理、以人为本与公民能动性、可问责可追溯的权威、跨时间判断、不可委托的核心职责。本文以国家为起点,因其是历史上为有效且合法的公共治理而形成的制度形式,且唯一具备完整正当性条件的载体。但数字治国计划也引发更深层问题:在算法时代,是否需重新思考国家的边界、规模与归属基础?
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The digital substrate - data, algorithms, infrastructure, platforms, applications - is being governed without adequate conceptual foundations. The ability and legitimacy required to govern this substrate, and to govern with it, are simultaneously misaligned, contested, and structurally absent. We introduce digital statecraft as the organising concept for this emerging field, arguing that 'digital' reconstitutes the statecraft question rather than merely extending its domain. The concept operates on two dimensions - statecraft over digital systems, concerning the authority and capacity of the state in relation to the digital substrate itself, and statecraft with digital systems, concerning the deployment of algorithmic tools as instruments of governing authority. And it rests on two foundational requirements, technical coherence and legitimate authority, that are genuinely in tension. We derive ten principles of digital statecraft from these foundations, each naming a condition whose absence produces an identifiable and structural governance failure: public interest first, human-machine complementarity, governability by design, systemic coherence, hybrid institutions, adaptive governance, human centricity and civic agency, accountable and traceable authority, judgment across time, and the non-delegable core. This article takes the state as the starting point, the institutional form that developed historically in response to the problem of effective and legitimate public governance, and the only current candidate for which the full set of legitimacy conditions is institutionally available. But the digital statecraft programme holds open a deeper question than just whether states can reform themselves: governing well in the algorithmic age may require rethinking the boundaries, scale, and affiliative basis of statehood itself.
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