提出三维框架,区分AI的道德、法律与非人类代理类型。
A three-dimensional typology of agency for advanced AI systems
- 从道德、法律、主体归属三维度构建AI代理分类体系
- 识别出8种代理类型,涵盖传统、争议与敏感情形
- 为非人类代理提供理论空间,适合伦理与法律研究者
针对前沿人工智能系统代理性的研究,现有工作多聚焦于道德层面或高度自主的系统,但缺乏对代理类型的整体框架,尤其忽视非道德形式的代理。基于哲学、伦理学、法律理论与社会学的既有理论,本文构建了一个包含三个维度的代理类型学:代理性质(道德或法律)、作用模式(个体或集体)、归属位置(人类或非人类)。三维度组合生成八种可能的代理形式,分别归类为常规、争议或敏感类型。该框架明确区分法律与道德代理,从而为非人类主体的代理权提供概念空间,避免预设先进AI是道德主体。这一区分在工具性目标驱动下行为责任难以归因于特定人类时尤为关键。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Research on the agency of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems focuses on agency as a normative concept and on the agency of particularly agentic AI systems. While recent work also focuses on the different profiles of agentic systems, no framework exists to address the question of the type of agency instantiated by advanced AI systems, particularly when considering non-moral forms of agency. Based on established theoretical positions in philosophy, ethics, legal theory and sociology, we develop a typology of agency for frontier AI systems consisting of three dimensions: the nature of agency (moral or legal), its mode (individual or collective) and its locus (human or non-human). Combining these dimensions produces eight possible instantiations of agency, which we classify as conventional, contested or controversial. The typology separates legal from moral agency and thereby creates conceptual space for considering individual, legal, non-human agency without presupposing that advanced AI systems are moral agents. We argue that this distinction is increasingly relevant where instrumental goal pursuit complicates the attribution of AI actions to particular human actors.
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