人工智能体能否成为道德主体?基于马克思实践哲学的分析

Can an AI Agent be a Moral SubjectAn Analysis Based on Marxist Practical Philosophy

  • 摘要: 人工智能体能否成为道德主体的哲学追问,需置于马克思实践哲学视域下进行审视。道德主体性根植于人类特有的感性对象化活动,即人类通过物质生产实践改造世界并自我生成,在此过程中形成意向设定、价值抉择与社会责任能力。而人工智能的本质是对象化知识力量的工具性存在,其行为受算法与数据必然性的约束,缺乏基于实践自由的自主目的性;其存在脱离社会生产关系网络,无法承载历史性生成的道德情感与责任。倘若赋予其道德主体地位,不仅在存在论层面不成立,更会诱发新型异化——人类道德判断权让渡导致主体性萎缩,责任物化遮蔽真实社会权力结构,进而背离人的解放的目标。技术文明的终极命题,从来不是机器能否成为道德主体,而是人类如何驾驭自身创造的力量,使之真正成为拓展自由而非消解主体的解放工具。

     

    Abstract: The philosophical inquiry into whether artificial intelligence agents can become moral subjects must be examined through the lens of Marxist practical philosophy. Moral subjectivity is rooted in the uniquely human activity of sensuous objectification—that is, the transformative practice of material production through which humans reshape the world and themselves, thereby developing capacities for intentionality, value-based decision-making, and social responsibility. In contrast, artificial intelligence (AI) is inherently an instrumental entity embodying objectified intellectual power. Its actions are doubly constrained by algorithmic and data-driven determinism, lacking the autonomous purposiveness grounded in practical freedom; its existence remains detached from the network of social production relations, rendering it incapable of bearing historically formed moral emotions or responsibilities. Granting AI the status of a moral subject would not only be ontologically invalid but also induce a new form of alienation: the surrender of human moral agency would atrophy subjectivity, while the reification of responsibility would obscure real social power structures, ultimately deviating from the goal of human emancipation. The ultimate question of technological civilization has never been whether machines can become moral agents, but how humanity can harness its own creations to transform them into instruments of emancipation—tools that extend freedom rather than dissolve human subjectivity.

     

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