大模型的智能幻觉等属性实为人类沟通中的规范投射。
Asymmetric Communication: Large Language Models and Language Games
- 指出人机对话中规范活动全由人类承担,模型无承诺与问责能力
- 揭示五类认知属性本质是接收方主导的沟通现象,非模型自身特征
- 适合关注AI伦理、治理与语言哲学的研究者阅读
当代人工智能讨论将若干本不应归属于语言模型的属性强加于其上:通用智能作为与载体无关的认知、幻觉作为认知失败、自主性作为自主目标追求、意识作为涌现的内在生命、对齐作为目标同步。本文认为这些均属于同一类范畴错误——将人类交际实践中构成的属性投射到机器端。人-大模型交互构成一种语言游戏,其中仅一方承担规范活动。我们称之为不对称沟通,因模型输出虽可参与后续交流,但系统本身不承担承诺、不享有权利、也不进行决定话语地位的评估。三个结构性条件定义了这种不对称性:(i) 正确性仅由接收方强制执行;(ii) 责任完全由人类承担;(iii) 任何输出的实际地位完全取决于人类接受程度。这些条件具有结构性,独立于模型能力,且在更强大模型出现时仍保持不变。该框架借鉴维特根斯坦(意义在共享实践中实现)、卢曼(通信完成于接收方)、埃斯波西托(算法不确定性足以引发接受)和布兰道姆(规范记分制是话语地位的根源)。应用于上述五种属性,重新将其归类为接收方现象,将安全边界视为结构性必要而非机器道德代理的表现,并得出人工智能治理的重要启示:对齐是制度约束工程,而非代理间的目标同步,责任始终在人类机构。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Contemporary AI discourse attributes to language models properties they cannot bear: general intelligence as substrate-independent cognition, hallucination as cognitive failure, agency as autonomous goal-pursuit, sentience as emergent inner life, alignment as goal synchronization. This paper argues that these are instances of a single category mistake--properties constituted within human communicative practice are projected onto the machine side--and explains its structure. Human-LLM interaction constitutes a language game in which one side bears all normative activity. We call this configuration asymmetric communication since model outputs circulate communicatively, entering further exchanges, without the system undertaking commitments, bearing entitlements, or performing the assessment on which discursive standing depends. Three conditions define the asymmetry: (i) correctness is enforced exclusively by the receiver; (ii) accountability is borne by human participants alone; and (iii) the practical standing of any output depends entirely on human uptake. These conditions are structural, hold independently of capability, and remain unchanged as more powerful models raise the stakes of misattribution. The framework draws on Wittgenstein (meaning enacted in shared practices), Luhmann (communication completed on the receiver's side), Esposito (algorithmic contingency sufficient for uptake), and Brandom (normative scorekeeping as the source of discursive standing). Applied to all five, it reclassifies each as a receiver-side phenomenon, grounds guardrails as structural necessities rather than manifestations of machine moral agency, and yields an implication for AI governance. Alignment is institutional constraint engineering, not goal synchronization between agents, while responsibility remains with human institutions.
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