arXiv:2609.01685cs.AIcs.CY2026-09

AI若具备自主道德能力,将催生全新的伦理议题。

Meta-ethics and AI: exploring the novel meta-ethical questions in the era of AI

  • 提出四类元伦理问题框架,区分人类与AI视角下的道德本质
  • 指出主流伦理理论需重构才能适用于具备自主道德的AI
  • 适合关注人工智能伦理、哲学与未来治理的研究者阅读

随着人工智能的发展,以人类伦理为中心的传统元伦理学正面临重塑压力。若未来AI系统具备充分整合的道德推理、道德意向性与道德反思能力,将引发关于‘AI自身伦理’的新问题,区别于人类设计者强加的伦理原则。本文提出一种条件性方法论框架,用于识别此类问题的潜在范畴。在此基础上,区分四个元伦理探究领域:从人类视角看人类伦理的本质;从人类视角看AI自身伦理的本质;从AI视角看人类伦理的本质;以及从AI视角看其自身伦理的本质。文章探讨了认知主义、非认知主义、错误理论、成功理论、相对主义与客观实在论等主流元伦理理论在上述领域的适用性,认为多数以人为中心的理论难以直接迁移到AI情境,必须进行实质性修正。最终结论是,AI自身伦理的出现将对现有伦理框架构成重大挑战,可能需要深度重构或重新概念化。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the landscape of meta-ethics, which has largely centred on human ethics, faces pressures that may significantly reconfigure it. In particular, if future AI systems were to exhibit sufficiently integrated capacities for moral reasoning, moral intentionality, and moral reflection, novel meta-ethical questions would arise concerning what I call "AI's own ethics", as distinct from ethical principles merely imposed on AI by human designers. This paper offers a conditional and methodological framework for identifying the questions that would emerge if such AI systems were to arise. On that basis, the paper distinguishes four domains of meta-ethical inquiry in the era of AI: questions about the nature of human ethics from the human perspective; questions about the nature of AI's own ethics from the human perspective; questions about the nature of human ethics from the AI perspective; and questions about the nature of AI's own ethics from the AI perspective. The paper then considers how some existing mainstream meta-ethical theories (such as cognitivism and non-cognitivism, error theory and success theory, relativism, and objective realism) might illuminate these domains, while arguing that many familiar human-centred formulations of those theories may not transfer straightforwardly to AI cases without substantial revision. The overall conclusion is that the emergence of AI's own ethics would place significant pressure on current frameworks and may require substantial refinement, reconstruction, or reconceptualisation.

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