第四次革命:现代性的终结抑或重构——信息伦理对人工智能伦理的启示

The Fourth Revolution:End or Reconstruction of Modernity Illumination of Information Ethic on AI Ethic

信息伦理可以为亟待构建的人工智能伦理规范提供重要理论资源。信息伦理转化了原有的伦理主体,并用信息化生存代替技术化生存。这种对现代性的重新反思,挑战了传统技术伦理关于人与技术关系的关键性判断。信息伦理对人工智能伦理的贡献在于其对信息化生存、技术身份和自主性的全新解释。信息化生存指出了在数据冗余时代,信息自动化技术对人生存方式的颠覆。技术身份解释了网络空间现实化和物理空间虚拟化的双重进程。新的自主性问题出现在三阶技术系统中,界面与协议问题更为突出。面向未来,人工智能在规范上应遵循新的道德主体原则,在实践上应把责任放在首要地位,以适应新的信息现代性社会。

Information ethics can provide crucial theoretical resources for the uncompleted artificial intelligence ethical codes. It transforms the classical ethical subjects and substitutes informational existence for technological existence. Information ethics challenges the relationship between human beings and technology in classical technology ethics, by reviewing modernity theories. The contributions of information ethics for artificial intelligence ethics are the new interpretations of information beings, technological identity and autonomy. In the age of data explosion, information beings point that automation technology overthrow the way we are living. The technological identity indicates the dual processes of realization of cyberspace and virtualization of real world. The New Autonomy occurs in the system of third order technology and bring about the problem of Interface and protocol. In a word, artificial intelligence should follow the new principle of moral subjectivity. In practice, artificial intelligence ethics should put the responsibility in the first place, in order to accommodate the modern information society.