arXiv:2608.11225cs.AI2026-08

AI人格克隆挑战身份本质,提出可衡量的识别框架。

Identity from the Outside: A Conceptual Framework and Research Program for AI Personality Clones

  • 从观察者视角定义身份,分解为六项可量化因素
  • 长期不可区分性随版本迭代而减弱,关键在响应分布匹配
  • 提出'代理'新类型克隆,适合短期任务与有限寿命场景

AI‘人格克隆’迫使我们以操作化方式重新审视个人身份。忽略意识难题,通过观察者在时间维度上的辨识能力来定义身份。区分三重标准:对目标人物的忠实度、类人普遍性与个体独特性。提出六因素身份分解模型(载体、倾向、记忆、更新动态、上下文、外部偶然性),采用状态空间表述。不可区分性定义为观察者辨识优势的一倍减去该优势值,各因子系数可通过随机消融实验估计。核心假说是条件性猜想:若代理对其自身持续性有假设,并涉及自身利益后果,则版本演化将削弱长期不可区分性。类比λ演算、线性类型与双模拟,阐明线性所确立与未确立之界限。在产品克隆与个体之间,识别出第三类对象‘代理’——任务限定、寿命有限的局部克隆,以带宽受限的遗言收尾。将实证文献映射至三重标准,提出实验计划,主张长期标准应为‘气候一致性’而非轨迹忠实:匹配个体可能反应的条件分布。最优克隆是其偏离原体的方式,恰如原体自身会偏离自己那样。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

AI "personality clones" force a re-examination of personal identity in operational terms. Setting aside the hard problem of consciousness, we approach identity through the indiscernibility of manifestations, as assessed by an observer over a duration. We distinguish three criteria that "identity" conflates: fidelity to a target person, generic human-likeness, and individuality. We propose a six-term factorization of observed identity (substrate, dispositions, memory, update dynamics, context, exogenous contingencies), with a state-space formulation. Indiscernibility is defined as one minus a judge's distinguishing advantage, and the factorization's coefficients become local sensitivities estimable by randomized ablation. The central claim is a conditional conjecture: given hypotheses about the agent's information on its own persistence and about consequences bearing on its own stakes, versionability tends to degrade long-horizon indiscernibility. An analogy with lambda-calculus, linear typing, and bisimulation clarifies what linearity does and does not establish. Between product-clone and individual we identify a third object, the delegate: a task-limited, bounded-lifespan partial clone ending in a bandwidth-limited testament. We map the empirical literature onto the three criteria, propose an experimental program, and argue that the correct long-horizon criterion is not trajectory fidelity but climate fidelity: matching the conditional distribution of a person's possible responses. The best clone is the one that diverges from the original as the original would have diverged from itself.

人格克隆身份认同行为建模认知仿真

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