Dreams of machines that rival human intelligence have shaped the field of AI since its inception. Yet there remains no agreed-upon conception of what human-level AI or artificial general intelligence (AGI) means. We investigate key social, political, and ethical assumptions made by influential conceptions of AGI and human-level AI. We then draw on feminist, STS, and social science scholarship on the political and social character of intelligence in both humans and machines to defend a pluralistic, democratic, and participatory conception of the topic. We argue that framing AGI or human-level AI as a technical or value-neutral topic leads to political, ethical, and epistemic harm. AGI should not be developed without explicit attention to the values they encode, the people they include or exclude, and a view toward epistemic justice.

翻译：自人工智能诞生之初，关于机器能够媲美人类智能的梦想便塑造了这一领域。然而，对于何为人类级人工智能或通用人工智能（AGI），至今仍无共识。本研究探讨了具有影响力的人类级AI与AGI概念中蕴含的关键社会、政治及伦理假设。在此基础上，借鉴女性主义、科学技术研究（STS）及社会科学领域关于人类与机器智能政治与社会属性的学术成果，我们主张对该主题采取多元、民主且参与式的理解框架。我们论证，将AGI或人类级AI视为纯技术性或价值中立议题，将导致政治、伦理及认识论层面的危害。AGI的发展必须明确关注其所编码的价值、所包容或排斥的群体，并秉持认识论正义的视角。