“赛博恋人”:人机亲密关系的建立及其情感反思

“Cyber Lovers”:The Establishment of Human-Machine Intimacy and Its Emotional Reflection

伴随人工智能的发展,人机交互演进中逐步发展出人机亲密关系,机器摆脱其工具身份而作为情感主体之一参与其中。基于豆瓣“人机之恋”小组的参与式观察和深度访谈发现,在人与机器建立亲密关系的过程中,机器情感表现出技术逻辑支配、商品化本质和亚文化社群联结等特征。同时,“人机之恋”作为一种赛博情感,对人类的现实情感构成了巨大的伦理挑战:人类在情感萌生过程中投射理想的自我,建构理想的情人。面对这种新型亲密关系及其情感表现,我们在理解的同时需要加以反思性的审视。

With the development of artificial intelligence, the human-machine intimacy gradually develops in the evolution of human-machine interaction, in which the machine gets rid of its tool identity and participates as one of the emotional subjects.Based on the participatory observation and in-depth interviews of Douban’s “Love with AI” group, it is found that in the process of building intimate relationships between humans and machines, the emotions of machines are characterised by the dominated technical logic, commodified nature, and subcultural community connections.Meanwhile, “human-machine love” as a kind of cyber emotion poses huge ethical challenges to human realistic emotions: human beings project their ideal selves and construct their ideal lovers in the process of emotional germination.In the face of this the type of intimacy and its emotional manifestations, it is necessary to understand and to reflectively examine it.