人工智能“异己”的儒家“德性”审思

The Confucian“Virtue”Thoughts of Artificial Intelligence“Dissident”

人工智能是科技发展的重要突破,其与一般技术的根本不同在于:人工智能已经具备了创造知识的自主性,并且在将来极有可能摆脱人类的控制。人工智能一旦脱离人类控制,就会作为人类的异己者而存在,将有可能引发伦理风险。人工智能是否具备作为“自主者”的合法性成为我们需要深思的问题,从儒家的心灵视角来看,人工智能作为人类的创造物,其缺乏最为根本的“德性”基础,这种“德性”需要依靠人类心灵的自觉认知。要化解人工智能有可能造成的伦理风险,人类必须克服人工智能的“异己”倾向,以心灵的“德性”之光为人工智能的健康发展保驾护航。

Artificial intelligence is an important breakthrough in the development of science and technology.It is fundamentally different from general technology in that it has the autonomy to create knowledge and is likely to get rid of human control in the future.Once artificial intelligence is out of human control,it will exist as a human alien,which may lead to ethical risks.Whether AI has the legitimacy to act as an“autonomous person”has become a question we need to ponder.From the perspective of Confucianism,AI,as a human creation,lacks the most fundamental“virtue”basis,which depends on the conscious cognition of human mind.In order to resolve the ethical risks that AI may cause,human beings must overcome the tendency of“dissidence”of AI and escort the healthy development of AI with the light of“virtue”of the mind.