人工智能与解析社会的来临

Artificial Intelligence and the Emerging of Analytical Society

当前人工智能发展中社会影响最大的应用是认知计算和数据智能,人类社会由此正在走向基于数据智能的解析社会。对人的数据解析可以追溯至被称为政治算术的早期统计学研究,而数据智能的出现,使我们每个人从统计平均意义上的个体转变为可以被单个地进行量化和数据解析的"单体",由此可能会导致差异的革命和极端的不平等。如果说信息技术革命可以视为控制革命,当前正在兴起的解析社会则是其升级版"控制革命2.0"。它试图对人的行为进行智能调控,由此带来了一系列值得进一步探讨的伦理与政治问题。

At present, the most influential applications in the development of AI are cognitive computing and data intelligence. Human society is thus moving toward an analytical society based on data intelligence. The analysis of human data can be traced back to the early statistical research called political arithmetic, and the emerging of data intelligence has transformed each of us from an individual in statistical sense to an 'dividual' that can be quantified and computed individually. This trend can lead to revolution of discrimination and extreme inequalities. If the information technology revolution can be seen as control revolution, we may call the emerging analytical society that is its upgraded version'Control Revolution 2.0.' It attempts to intelligently regulate human behaviors, which brings a series of ethical and political issues that deserve further exploration.