农业大数据技术的伦理问题

Ethical Issues in Agricultural Big Data Technology

大数据技术在使农业获得巨大进步的同时,也给其带来了诸多伦理问题。基于农业特性,农业大数据技术的伦理问题主要表现为数据所有权的归属不清、农业企业制造垄断损害市场公平、农户生产自由受限、农业大数据的滥用等四个方面的问题。农业大数据伦理问题的本质,是作为数据生产者的农户不但无法占有自己所生产的数据,而且反过来还因为他人对自己所生产的数据的占有而导致生存状态受到危害。该过程在理论上属于农业大数据技术阻碍了人的本质确证问题。农业大数据伦理问题的解决,应通过引入公众来协调农户和农业组织之间的伦理冲突,从而实现伦理治理。

While big data technology has promoted agricultural innovation, it has also brought forth many ethical issues. Considering the characteristics of agriculture, these ethical problems mainly include unclear ownership of data, the damage on market equity caused by the monopoly of big agriculture enterprises, the violation of farmers’ autonomy, and the misuse of big data. The nature of these problems is that the farmers as the data producer can not own the data they have produced, and instead their living status has been harmed by the use of the data by others. That means big data technology has violated farmers’ intrinsic confirmation of themselves. The solution should be to introduce ethical governance, and relieve the ethical conflicts between farmers and big enterprises through the participation of the public.