论信息伦理的产生、转向与未来展望

On the Emergence,Transformation and Future Prospects of Information Ethics

[目的/意义]回顾20世纪80年代以来信息伦理的起源发展,对信息伦理是否被数据伦理、人工智能伦理所取代,及其是否能够在数字化转型中应对更加复杂多元的伦理问题做出回答,进而揭示信息伦理的伦理意义和重要价值,为数字化转型中的信息伦理研究和实践确定锚点。[方法/过程]文章通过文献调研法和内容分析法,梳理和归纳了约40年的信息伦理主要观点和关键问题,分析并廓清信息伦理内涵与演变规律,讨论信息伦理在各个时期的价值意义。[结果/结论]研究发现,信息伦理缘起于计算机伦理,其发展经历了从伦理角度看待信息问题和从信息角度看待伦理问题的两次转向,其核心问题透射的是信息流的产生和控制所造成的信息权利秩序的失衡。深入研究信息伦理对破除当今复杂多元的伦理问题具有重要意义,亟需强化信息伦理的研究价值,拓宽信息伦理的研究边界,积极融入数字化转型进程。

[Purpose/significance]This paper reviews the origins and development of information ethics since the1980s,answers whether information ethics has been replaced by data ethics and artificial intelligence ethics,and whether it can cope with more complex and diverse ethical issues in the digital transformation.Then,this paper reveals the ethical significance and important value of information ethics,and identifies the anchor point for the research and practice of information ethics in the digital transformation.[Method/process]Through literature research and content analysis,this paper summarizes the main views and key issues of information ethics in about 40 years,clarifies the connotation and evolution of information ethics,and discusses the value and significance of information ethics in each period.[Result/conclusion]The research finds that information ethics originated from computer ethics,and its development has undergone two shifts from an ethical perspective to an information issue and from an information perspective to an ethical issue,and its core issue reflects the imbalance of the information rights order caused by the generation and control of information flow.In-depth research on information ethics is of great significance to break down the complex and diversified ethical issues today,and it is urgent to strengthen the research value of information ethics,broaden the research boundary of information ethics,and actively integrate into the digital transformation process.