Tech ethics & artificial intelligence
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Vocabulário
- 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.
Expressões
- 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
Erros frequentes
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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