In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms

Nowotny, Helga

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-03
  • 售價: $930
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$884
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 192
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1509565469
  • ISBN-13: 9781509565467
  • 相關分類: 人工智慧Algorithms-data-structuresMachine Learning
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商品描述

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI - and, if so, what this will mean for our behaviour, for our institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the future and challenges our identities, yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to understand how it affects us.

At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to increase our control over the future and uncertainty, while at the same time the performativity of AI, the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts, reduces our agency over the future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress, which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions, posing the threat of surveillance, but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and transform it into care.

As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms, robots and avatars play an ever-increasing role, we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their predictions affect our agency, while at the same time having the courage to embrace the uncertainty of the future.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

對未來最持久的擔憂之一是,未來是否會被人工智慧的預測演算法主導——如果是的話,這將對我們的行為、我們的機構以及成為人類的意義產生什麼影響。人工智慧改變了我們對時間和未來的體驗,挑戰了我們的身份認同,然而我們卻被其效率所蒙蔽,無法理解它如何影響我們。

我們對人工智慧的信任中存在一個悖論:我們利用人工智慧來增強對未來和不確定性的控制,但同時,人工智慧的表現性,即它使我們按照其預測的方式行動的能力,卻減少了我們對未來的主動性。當我們忘記是人類創造了我們所賦予主動性的數位技術時,這種情況就會發生。這些發展也挑戰了進步的敘事,這在現代性中扮演了如此重要的角色,並且基於對完全控制的自負。我們現在正進入一個控制有限的時代,因為人工智慧監控著我們的行為,帶來了監視的威脅,但同時也提供了重新獲得控制並將其轉化為關懷的機會。

隨著我們試圖適應一個演算法、機器人和虛擬形象日益扮演重要角色的世界,我們需要更好地理解人工智慧的局限性以及它們的預測如何影響我們的主動性,同時也要有勇氣去擁抱未來的不確定性。

作者簡介

Helga Nowotny is former President of the European Research Council. She is Professor Emerita of Social Studies of Science at ETH Zurich.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Helga Nowotny 是歐洲研究委員會的前主席。她是蘇黎世聯邦理工學院社會科學研究的名譽教授。