The article explores technology-human relations in a time of artificial intelligence (AI) and in the context of long-standing problems in social theory about agency, nonhumans, and autonomy. Most theorizations of AI are grounded in dualistic thinking and traditional views of technology, oversimplifying real-world settings. This article works to unfold modes of existence at play in AI/human relations. Materials from ethnographic fieldwork are used to highlight the significance of autonomy in AI/human relations. The analysis suggests that the idea of autonomy is a double-edged sword, showing that humans not only coordinate their perception of autonomy but also switch between registers by sometimes ascribing certain autonomous features to the AI system and in other situations denying the system such features. As a result, AI/human relations prove to be not so much determined by any ostensive delegation of tasks as by the way in which AI and humans engage with each other in practice. The article suggests a theory of relationality that redirects focus away from questions of agency towards questions of what it means to be in relations.

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并说人工智能做出了回应？在人工智能/人类遭遇中围绕“自主性”跳舞。


本文探讨了人工智能 (AI) 时代的技术与人类关系，并以社会理论中有关代理、非人类和自治的长期存在的问题为背景。大多数人工智能理论都基于二元思维和传统技术观点，过度简化了现实世界的环境。本文致力于揭示人工智能/人类关系中发挥作用的存在模式。来自民族志田野调查的材料被用来强调人工智能/人类关系中自主的重要性。分析表明，自主的概念是一把双刃剑，表明人类不仅协调他们对自主的感知，而且还通过有时将某些自主功能归因于人工智能系统而在其他情况下否认系统的这些功能来在寄存器之间进行切换。因此，事实证明，人工智能/人类关系并不是由任何明示的任务委派决定的，而是由人工智能和人类在实践中相互接触的方式决定的。这篇文章提出了一种关系理论，将焦点从代理问题转向关系中意味着什么的问题。