Name: 我們會讓人工智能為我們做決定嗎？ (Will we let AI decide for us?)
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T09:27:46.000Z
Duration: 9 min 47 s

You are going to be tempted in ways that you have never before been tempted to outsource your thinking.

你會受到前所未有的誘惑，將自己的思維外包出去。

人工智能已經完成了我們的句子。

它已經對我們的收件箱進行了分類。

It already tells you what the next song in the queue is.

它已經告訴你隊列中的下一首歌是什麼。

And that is all kind of in the realm of convenience.

Soon, AI could silently determine what ideas ever reach your mind.

很快，人工智能就能悄無聲息地決定你的想法。

Your next job or relationship or purpose.

That's the scenario of an autocomplete for life. 200 years ago, the German philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt thought a lot about this.

這就是自動完成的生活場景。200 年前，德國哲學家威廉-馮-洪堡（Wilhelm von Humboldt）對此進行了深入思考。

When mechanization was just starting to transform the world.

當時，機械化剛剛開始改變世界。

To flourish as humans, we have to be self-directed.

作為人類，我們必須自我導向，才能蓬勃發展。

We are the architects of our own becoming.

但是，如果我們卸下我們的思想。

If we let AI automate the things that we want to pursue.

如果我們讓人工智能自動完成我們想要追求的事情。

So when you're building a technology like artificial intelligence.

是以，當你在構建人工智能這樣的技術時。

It ends up being incredibly important to deliberate on what we're building and why.

最終，對我們正在建造什麼以及為什麼要建造進行深思熟慮變得無比重要。

I'm the founder and chair of Cosmos Institute.

我是宇宙研究所的創始人和主席。

We are trying to cultivate a new kind of technologist.

我們正在努力培養新型技術專家。

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.

蘇格拉底曾經說過，未經審視的人生是不值得過的。

Similarly, the unexamined product may not be worth building.

同樣，未經檢驗的產品可能也不值得製造。

Silicon Valley was once a place that married a bold moral ambition with incredible engineering.

硅谷曾經是一個將大膽的道德抱負與驚人的工程技術完美結合的地方。

You even had people thinking like Steve Jobs.

你甚至讓人們像喬布斯一樣思考。

That technology with the humanities was essential to produce the kinds of products that make our hearts sing.

要生產出讓我們為之歌唱的產品，人文技術是必不可少的。

And somewhere along the way, that changed.

但不知從什麼時候開始，情況發生了變化。

We have seen the best minds of our generation.

我們看到了我們這一代最優秀的人才。

Shift their energy and attention towards driving the attention of others.

將他們的精力和注意力轉移到吸引他人的注意力上來。

So how do we bring back that vital spirit of Silicon Valley.

那麼，我們該如何讓硅谷重新煥發活力呢？

That was to bring into being companies that mattered.

We would need the propulsion that comes from the engineering efforts.

我們需要來自工程技術的推進力。

We would need a way to point the nose of the rocket and have a star tracker.

我們需要一種方法來指向火箭的機頭，並有一個恆星跟蹤器。

哲學為我們提供了明星追蹤器。

Yet, it's incredibly rare in Silicon Valley.

Well, there are three archetypes that I see in technologists I talk to every day.

在我每天接觸的技術專家中，我看到了三種原型。

These are people like me when I was building AI startups.

這些人就像我在創建人工智能初創企業時一樣。

They are people that are very focused on the technical and business problems before them.

他們專注於解決面前的技術和業務問題。

And they're not really stepping back and reflecting on the broader ends of their creation.

他們並沒有真正退後一步，反思其創作的更廣泛的目的。

And these are people that take something they're good at, say computation.

這些人善於利用自己擅長的東西，比如計算。

And they say things like, if this problem can't be solved by computer science, is it worth solving at all?

他們會說，如果這個問題計算機科學都解決不了，那它還值得解決嗎？

They take morality and they try to make it something that's computable.

他們從道德出發，試圖讓道德成為可計算的東西。

People who say, you know, philosophers, they tend to be pretty smart, but it's totally irrelevant.

那些說，你知道，哲學家，他們往往相當聰明，但這完全無關緊要。

What could we possibly learn from these radical alien minds of the past?

我們能從過去這些激進的外星思想中學到什麼？

And this is a philosophic position of a kind.

我認為有一種解藥可以解決這個問題。

And I think it's developing a builder who takes seriously the ideas of human flourishing.

我認為，這是在培養一位認真對待人類繁榮理念的建設者。

Who thinks about how to build systems that promote and safeguard human autonomy.

思考如何建立促進和保障人類自主權的系統。

Some of the best thinkers about technology, about what it enables, about how it could be equipment for flourishing.

一些最優秀的思想家對技術、對技術的作用、對如何利用技術促進繁榮進行了思考。

They lived hundreds of years ago or thousands of years ago outside of the modern technological bubble.

他們生活在幾百年前或幾千年前的現代科技保麗龍之外。

The three greatest critics are people like C.S.

最偉大的三位批評家是 C.S. 等人。

Lewis or Alexis de Tocqueville or Martin Heidegger.

劉易斯、亞歷克西斯-托克維爾或馬丁-海德格爾。

These are not the people that are publishing Substack.

And there's a kind of blitzkrieg that happens every single day in AI.

人工智能領域每天都在發生著一場閃電戰。

So we feel like we have to just sort of keep up with things on the frontier.

是以，我們覺得我們必須跟上前沿領域的發展。

At times of immense change, the best thing you can do is just take a step back.

在發生巨大變化的時候，你能做的最好的事情就是後退一步。

And to try to look at what questions should be primary.

並嘗試研究哪些問題應該是首要問題。

And try to get perspective from people that are outside of the modern technological bubble.

並嘗試從現代科技保麗龍之外的人那裡獲得視角。

As a builder, your quintessential job is to create a shared world.

作為一名建設者，你的本質工作就是創造一個共享的世界。

And that's where philosophy is essential.

We think that the world creates moments when philosophy really matters.

我們認為，世界創造了哲學真正重要的時刻。

And that the builders are at the front row seat of history.

One of the things that Aristotle does is he teases out the difference between the goals we have and the means we would use to attain those goals.

亞里士多德所做的事情之一，就是找出了我們所擁有的目標與我們為實現這些目標所使用的手段之間的區別。

If you're a builder, you should ask yourself, what am I building for?

如果你是一名建築商，你應該問問自己，我是為了什麼而建築？

This is no less important a question than when Plato's Socrates asked, what is justice?

這個問題的重要性不亞於柏拉圖筆下的蘇格拉底提出的 "什麼是正義？

At Cosmos Institute, we are trying to create and support a new kind of technologist.

在宇宙研究所，我們正在努力創造和支持一種新型的技術專家。

Someone who can go from first principles to first prototype.

能夠從最初的原理到最初的原型。

Creating new worlds through culture, through code, through their commitments to human flourishing.

通過文化、通過代碼、通過對人類繁榮的承諾，創造新世界。

The ancient Greeks had two words for order.

古希臘人有兩個詞來表示秩序。

Taxis is the order that you impose from the top down.

計程車是自上而下強制執行的命令。

In contrast, cosmos is the kind of bottom up order.

相比之下，宇宙是一種自下而上的秩序。

The evolutionary, adaptive, emergent order.

In Plato's Republic, he introduces the concept of a philosopher king.

在柏拉圖的《共和國》中，他提出了哲學家國王的概念。

Someone who marries wisdom with power and discovers the truth and then uses it to rule.

一個將智慧與權力相結合的人，發現真理，然後用真理來統治。

The philosopher king is the taxis approach.