数字时代人文学科的命运——“开明论坛”第四期讨论会综述

The Fate of the Humanities in the Digital Age:Review of the Fourth "Kaiming Forum"

数字化和人工智能技术飞速发展带来了挑战与机遇并存的新局面,人文学科在这一知识背景下发展前景如何? 20余位来自四川省不同高校的学者围绕这一议题展开了探讨和对话,并引申出一系列问题,形成了不同的见解。关于人工智能写作是否具备文学属性的问题,较为一致的看法是应该回归文学主体性本身来思考人工智能创作;关于人工智能发展是否会对人类社会造成威胁的问题,与会者从自身学科知识出发剖析人工智能现状及其影响,形成了焦虑居多的悲观主义、有节制的乐观主义和实用性的工具主义三种不同看法;数字化的强大功能不仅带来了新的学科优势和价值,同时也衍生了发展应用不完善、人类认知及情感体验受到冲击等新的挑战,着眼学科建设与重视情感道德判断兼顾,才是将数字化的挑战转变为机遇的最佳途径。在数字时代,以关注人的发展为指归的人文学科将会扮演不可或缺的重要角色。

The rapid development of digitalization and artificial intelligence technology has brought challenges and opportunities to coexist in the new situation.What is the future of the humanities in this context? More than 20 scholars from different universities and colleges in Sichuan Province discussed and talked about this issue,and extended a series of questions with different opinions.As for whether artificial intelligence writing has the literary attribute,there is a consensus that it should return to the literary subjectivity itself to think about the creation of artificial intelligence.As for whether the development of artificial intelligence will pose a threat to human society,participants analyzed the current situation of artificial intelligence and its influence from the perspective of their own disciplinary knowledge,and formed three different views:pessimism with more anxiety,optimism with moderation and instrumentalism with practicality.The powerful functions of digitalization not only bring new discipline advantages and values,but also derive new challenges such as imperfect development and application,impact on human cognition and emotional experience.The best way to turn digitalization challenges into opportunities is to focus on discipline construction and attach importance to emotional and moral judgment.In the digital age,the humanities,which focus on human development,will play an indispensable role.