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Tech ethics & artificial intelligence

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  • 人工智能artificial intelligence
  • 算法algorithm
  • 大数据big data
  • 深度学习deep learning
  • 伦理ethics
  • 隐私privacy
  • 监控surveillance
  • 自主性autonomy
  • 偏见bias
  • 责任responsibility / accountability
  • 透明度transparency
  • 赋能to empower
  • 失业unemployment
  • 奇点singularity (tech)

Tech Ethics & Artificial Intelligence in Chinese

Debating AI ethics in Chinese requires both the technical vocabulary and the philosophical conditional structures that allow for speculation without overcommitment.

Philosophical Conditional Structures

  • 假设...那么... (suppose...then...): sets up a thought experiment
  • 如果人工智能真的能... (if AI can truly...): tests a claim's implications
  • 倘若...是否就意味着... (if it were the case that...would it mean...): tests logical consequences

Possibility Modal Verbs

  • 可能 (possibly): neutral
  • 或许 (perhaps): slightly more tentative
  • 不无可能 (not without possibility): formal, double-negative hedging
  • 难以排除 (difficult to rule out): formal sceptical acknowledgement

Key Debates

AI bias (算法偏见): Chinese academic debate focuses on how training data reflects existing social inequalities and how bias propagates through systems.

Privacy vs. security (隐私与安全): A distinctive Chinese policy framing — the tension between collective benefit (群体利益) and individual rights (个人权利).

Autonomous weapons (自主武器): Raises questions of moral responsibility (道德责任) when machines make lethal decisions.

In academic Chinese writing, presenting multiple perspectives (多方观点) before stating a personal position is the expected structure — not a weakness, but a scholarly virtue.

Uitdrukkingen

  • 人工智能是否应该拥有道德权利Should AI possess moral rights — key debate opener
  • 算法偏见可能加剧社会不平等Algorithmic bias may exacerbate social inequality
  • 难以排除算法存在系统性歧视的可能性Cannot rule out systematic discrimination in the algorithm
  • 在技术赋能与隐私保护之间寻求平衡Seeking balance between tech empowerment and privacy
  • 假设意识可以被复制,那么……If consciousness could be replicated, then...
  • 自主性与责任能否共存Can autonomy and responsibility coexist
  • 这一议题尚无定论This issue has no consensus yet
  • 从伦理视角来看From an ethical perspective

Veelgemaakte fouten

  • 人工智能将会完全取替人类的工作
    人工智能将会彻底取代人类的工作

    取替 is non-standard; 取代 is the correct term for replacing something.

  • 这项技术存在很多道德上的问题需要讨论
    这项技术存在许多伦理问题亟待探讨

    At C2, prefer 伦理 over 道德上的, and 亟待探讨 (urgently needs discussion) over the verbose 需要讨论.

  • 我们应该对人工智能的发展保持谨慎的态度
    我们应当对人工智能的发展保持审慎态度

    审慎 is more formal and precise than 谨慎 in academic contexts; 应当 is slightly more formal than 应该.

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