Over the past decade, artificial intelligence has demonstrated its efficiency in many different applications and a huge number of algorithms have become central and ubiquitous in our life. Their growing interest is essentially based on their capability to synthesize and process large amounts of data, and to help humans making decisions in a world of increasing complexity. Yet, the effectiveness of algorithms in bringing more and more relevant recommendations to humans may start to compete with human-alone decisions based on values other than pure efficacy. Here, we examine this tension in light of the emergence of several forms of digital normativity, and analyze how this normative role of AI may influence the ability of humans to remain subject of their life. The advent of AI technology imposes a need to achieve a balance between concrete material progress and progress of the mind to avoid any form of servitude. It has become essential that an ethical reflection accompany the current developments of intelligent algorithms beyond the sole question of their social acceptability. Such reflection should be anchored where AI technologies are being developed as well as in educational programs where their implications can be explained.
翻译:过去十年来,人工智能在许多不同的应用中显示出其效率,大量算法已成为我们生活中的中心和无处不在的集中,其日益增长的兴趣主要取决于他们综合和处理大量数据的能力,以及帮助人类在一个日益复杂的世界中作出决定的能力。然而,算法在向人类提出越来越多的、更相关的建议方面的效力,可能开始与基于非纯效率价值的人类独立决定竞争。在这里,我们根据几种形式的数字规范性的出现来审查这种紧张,并分析AI的规范作用如何影响人类继续受其生活影响的能力。AI技术的出现,要求必须在具体物质进步和思想进步之间取得平衡,以避免任何形式的奴役。除了其社会可接受性这一唯一问题之外,在目前智能算法的发展的同时,必须进行道德反思。这种思考应当扎根于正在开发的AI技术以及能够解释其影响的教育方案。