无力、无私与无用:数字化的暗面及其克服

Powerlessness,Exposedness,and Uselessness:The Dark Side of Digitalization and the Way Out

数字技术尤其是人工智能的快速发展正在以超出预期的方式实现现代哲学的愿景.但数字化的未来正在给人带来无力、无私和无用的处境,它们分别指向个人对社会生活的控制力与内在自主性能力的损害、个人生活的透明化与个体独特性成长的开放空间的日渐封闭,以及人们做出生产性贡献的机会与相应的社会尊严的丧失.在接受技术发展的价值与必然性的前提下,不同层次的公共实践是我们可以依赖的、缓解无力与无私的人性力量.但无用的处境似乎是无法避免的,除非我们摆脱以效用和生产性贡献观念为核心的市场价值观的支配,重塑一种新的社会-伦理想象.

The rapid development of digital technologies,especially artificial intelligence(AI),has been actualizing the vision of modern philosophy in an unexpected way.However,the digitalized future seems to.be putting people into a condition of powerlessness,exposedness,and uselessness,which indicates the facts that:(1)people's mastery of social life and internal autonomy is impaired;(2)people’s individual lives are thoroughly exposed,and openness for the growth of individual uniqueness is increasingly closed;and(3)people’s opportunities for productive contributions and the corresponding social dignity are deprived.Given the significance and necessity of technological progress,public practices on various levels are reliable human capabilities to relieve powerlessness and exposedness.Unfortunately,the plight of use-lessness seems unavoidable unless a different social-ethical imaginary can be reshaped without the domination of market values grounded in the conceptions of utility and productive contribution.