人工智能生态环境问题的“马克思政治生态学”审思

A Marxist Political Ecology Reflection on Artificial Intelligence Ecological Issues

  • 摘要: 人工智能技术依赖的硬件基础设施产生显著的碳足迹与水足迹问题,其全产业链更进一步放大了资源消耗与污染风险。在此背景下,“马克思政治生态学”为有待解释的新兴技术的生态环境问题提供了可资借鉴的有益视角。从批判的可能性而言,生态危机的全球蔓延与批判技术资本化的传统共同构成了对新兴技术进行分析的合法性基础;从现实必要性来看,当前技术发展与生态治理中普遍存在的去政治化倾向,亟待通过批判性理论揭示其背后的权力关系与结构性矛盾。通过“马克思政治生态学”的透镜可清晰看到,技术层面的人工智能本质上仍未脱离“传统机器”的范畴:它对自然和数据资源的高度依赖加剧了经济与生态不平等交换,它在传统化石能源的支撑下运转也必然延续了原有不平等问题。推动人工智能的“政治生态化”,可能是破解技术霸权与生态危机共生困境的唯一选择。

     

    Abstract: The hardware infrastructure that underpins artificial intelligence technology generates significant carbon and water footprints, and its entire industrial chain further exacerbates resource consumption and pollution risks. Against this backdrop, "Marxist Political Ecology" provides a valuable perspective for understanding the ecological and environmental issues of emerging technologies. In terms of the possibility of critique, the global spread of ecological crises and the traditional critique of technological capitalization together constitute the legitimacy basis for analyzing emerging technologies; from the perspective of current necessity, the widespread depoliticization tendencies in technological development and ecological governance urgently require critical theory to reveal the underlying power relations and structural contradictions. Through the lens of “Marxist Political Ecology”, it becomes clear that artificial intelligence at the technological level is essentially still within the realm of “traditional machines”: its high dependence on natural and data resources intensifies economic and ecological unequal exchange, and its operation supported by traditional fossil energy inevitably perpetuates existing inequalities. Promoting the “political ecologization” of artificial intelligence may be the only way to break the symbiotic dilemma of technological hegemony and ecological crisis.

     

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