arXiv:2608.08408cs.CYcs.AI2026-08中稿 · AAAI

三位青年研究者揭示AI社区中的疏离感成因,提出抵抗策略。

Abstracted Away: Resisting Alienation and Ungrounded Abstraction in AI Research Communities

论文配图:Abstracted Away: Resisting Alienation and Ungrounded Abstraction in AI Research Communities
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  • 通过自传式叙事分析,揭示抽象化如何制造学术共同体中的疏离感。
  • 识别出'情感抽象'是核心机制,可通过觉察情绪与集体行动抵抗。
  • 为受排斥的研究者提供反思框架,助力构建更包容的AI研究生态。

计算AI研究中的抽象逻辑常将重要知识与反思排除在外:主流合法性标准脱离实际伤害体验;研究目标与实践操作脱节;职业压力挤占批判性思考空间。尽管已有学术与社群努力尝试重构实践,但社会技术性伤害与认识论不公仍持续存在。作为三位早期职业的批判性AI研究者,我们亲身经历这种疏离感:在研究共同体中感到像局外人,部分背景被忽视,部分被符号化。我们指出,这种疏离源于与真实经验的距离,其机制与抽象同构。除作为计算任务的基础结构外,抽象亦成为研究空间中的社会规范。通过三则自传式叙事,我们描述了如何遭遇并抵抗疏离。分析这些叙述中的主题,构建了一个解释框架,分类了疏离的前因、机制与危害。最后,我们识别出‘情感抽象’是关键机制,可通过关注自身情绪反应与集体行动予以抵抗。为此,我们提供该框架作为诠释性资源,以支持类似反思。批判性自我反思与意义建构,是挑战排他性学术规范、培育更具包容性的AI研究的必要步骤。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Logics of abstraction in computational AI research often push important forms of knowledge and reflection aside: dominant standards of legitimacy separate from lived experience of harm; the goals of work misalign with the practices that operationalize them; and career demands crowd out critical reflection. Even as prior academic and community-oriented efforts have sought to recontextualize and challenge common practices, exposure to sociotechnical harms and epistemic injustice persists. As three early-career critical AI researchers, we experienced this as alienation: feeling like outsiders in our research communities. This alienation has involved having some aspects of our backgrounds overlooked and others tokenized. We argue our alienation occurred through mechanisms that mirror abstraction by creating distance from relevant material realities. Beyond abstraction's role in computational AI research as a foundational practice structuring complex computational tasks, we have encountered it as a social norm in computational research spaces, illustrated through an autoethnographic inquiry into our alienation. We narrate three vignettes describing how we encountered and resisted alienation in our research communities. By analyzing themes across these accounts, we construct an interpretive framework of alienation categorizing its preconditions, mechanisms, and harms. Finally, we identify affect abstraction, one of the mechanisms of alienation we describe, as a high-leverage mechanism that is resistible by staying attuned to our affective responses, and collective action as a way to reduce risk and isolation when engaging in resistance. To assist others with similar reflection, we present our framework as a hermeneutic resource. Critical self-reflection and meaning-making are necessary steps toward challenging exclusionary disciplinary norms and cultivating more inclusive forms of AI research.

批判AI研究伦理情感抽象共同体

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