阿伦特的想象:AI时代人类境况的反思

Arendt's Vision:A Deep Dive into the Human Condition Amidst the AI Era

人工智能时代来临,生产力和生产效率再一次提升,人们在享受人工智能技术服务的同时,也在一定程度上自愿屈服于技术系统的控制。二十世纪五十年代,阿伦特在其著作《人的境况》中就已经预言,在科技的裹挟下,人的行为会出现无思想性,即人们只重视自己行为的结果,不再思考自己行为的本质和意义,更不会思考自己活在怎样的“境况”中。因此,她提出了“我们正在做什么”的深刻提问。人工智能时代,身处算法编织的“信息茧房”,人们已更加无力且无暇去回答阿伦特的反问。虽然现阶段对于人工智能的恐惧大多夸大其词,但人工智能发展中可能存在的“危险”确实会给人们带来新的挑战。重新反思阿伦特所提出的时代之问,描绘出人工智能时代人们所处畸形境况的新模型,是对人工智能发展问题的一种解答。

In the 1950s,Arendt foresaw in her seminal work,"The Human Condition,"a future where technology would foster a thoughtless human behavior.She envisioned people fixating solely on the outcomes of their actions,neglecting to ponder the inherent nature and significance of those actions.Arendt questioned the state of existence we inhabit,posing the rhetorical query,"What are we doing?"As we step into the AI era,our productivity and efficiency have surged anew.While reaping the benefits of AI,we also find ourselves,to an extent,ensnared by the technological system.Enveloped in the"information cocoon"crafted by algorithms,individuals today feel increasingly powerless and are hard-pressed to find the time to reflect on Arendt's poignant question.Although the portrayal of AI can be hyperbolic,the potential"dangers"it presents as it evolves do pose genuine challenges for humanity.Revisiting Arendt's timely question and delineating a new paradigm of the predicament in which humanity finds itself is a critical approach for political philosophy to address the implications of AI's progression.