人工智能驱动的推荐系统与维护个人自主权

IF 2.9 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AI & Society Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI:10.1007/s00146-023-01720-2

Juan Ignacio del Valle, Francisco Lara

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推荐系统（RecSys）早在互联网诞生之初就已出现，它可以帮助用户在浩瀚的信息海洋中遨游，并为我们提供越来越多的选择。随着技术能力的提高，可以使用 RecSys 的任务范围也在不断扩大，而机器学习的颠覆则代表了这一领域以及其他许多领域的临界点。然而，人工智能驱动的 RecSys 技术能力的提高并没有带来对其伦理影响的全面考虑，尽管 RecSys 是一个成熟的技术领域，但其对用户的潜在影响仍未得到充分评估。本文旨在填补这一空白，探讨 RecSys 的主要影响之一：个人自主权。我们首先介绍了技术如何影响人类价值观，以及识别这些影响和减轻潜在危害的合适方法：价值敏感设计（VSD）。我们使用 VSD 对通用 RecSys 背景下的个人自主性进行概念性研究，并借鉴程序性自主性的细微说明，重点关注两个组成部分：能力和真实性。我们以价值等级体系的形式提供了研究结果，并将其应用于推测性 RecSys 的设计中。

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AI-powered recommender systems and the preservation of personal autonomy

Recommender Systems (RecSys) have been around since the early days of the Internet, helping users navigate the vast ocean of information and the increasingly available options that have been available for us ever since. The range of tasks for which one could use a RecSys is expanding as the technical capabilities grow, with the disruption of Machine Learning representing a tipping point in this domain, as in many others. However, the increase of the technical capabilities of AI-powered RecSys did not come with a thorough consideration of their ethical implications and, despite being a well-established technical domain, the potential impacts of RecSys on their users are still under-assessed. This paper aims at filling this gap in regards to one of the main impacts of RecSys: personal autonomy. We first describe how technology can affect human values and a suitable methodology to identify these effects and mitigate potential harms: Value Sensitive Design (VSD). We use VSD to carry out a conceptual investigation of personal autonomy in the context of a generic RecSys and draw on a nuanced account of procedural autonomy to focus on two components: competence and authenticity. We provide the results of our inquiry as a value hierarchy and apply it to the design of a speculative RecSys as an example.

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AI & Society COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-

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8.00

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20.00%

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257

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