I gotta use words when I talk to you: Primed suspension of disbelief in views on agency in relation to Artificial Intelligence

IF 5.7 2区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Information and Organization Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2025.100557

Matthew Jones

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Abstract

The public launch of generative AI systems in 2022 has prompted considerable popular interest in their potential to transform work and to achieve the long-sought goal of machine intelligence. While the uncanny abilities of Large Language Models to produce fluent text on almost any subject lends these ideas some plausibility, they are based on debatable, if not erroneous, claims about the capabilities of generative AI. Although rarely presented in these terms, these claims may be seen to reflect a limited, substantive conception of the agency of AI systems. Alternative conceptualisations of agency from other disciplines are presented that may offer potentially more fruitful ways of thinking about agency in relation to AI. The way that conceptions of the agency of AI systems is shaped by the language used to describe their behaviour is highlighted and opportunities for alternative conceptions of agency to inform a more critical analysis of generative AI are identified.

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当我跟你说话的时候，我必须用这个词：对与人工智能有关的代理机构的观点的启动暂停怀疑

生成式人工智能系统将于2022年公开推出，这引起了人们对其改变工作方式和实现机器智能这一长期目标的潜力的极大兴趣。尽管大型语言模型在几乎任何主题上都能生成流畅的文本，这种不可思议的能力为这些想法提供了一些合理性，但它们是基于对生成式人工智能能力的有争议（如果不是错误的话）的主张。虽然很少以这些术语呈现，但这些主张可能被视为反映了人工智能系统代理的有限的、实质性的概念。来自其他学科的代理的替代概念可能提供潜在的更富有成效的方式来思考与人工智能相关的代理。AI系统的代理概念是由用于描述其行为的语言塑造的，并指出了代理替代概念的机会，以告知对生成AI的更批判性分析。

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Information and Organization Multiple-

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11.20

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1.60%

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期刊介绍： Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.