Culture is the most insidious vector of gradual human disempowerment by AI: unlike economic or political displacement, cultural displacement attacks the very preferences and values through which humans recognise and resist disempowerment itself. We argue that existing AI governance frameworks suffer from a critical blind spot by treating cultural impact as secondary to economic and safety concerns. This paper develops \emph{memetic capture} as a unifying concept for AI-driven cultural disempowerment, and proposes the \textbf{Cultural Pluralistic Governance Framework (CPGF)}, a four-tier policy architecture combining quantitative cultural influence metrics, democratic value assemblies, pluralistic deployment standards, and transnational coordination mechanisms. We argue that pluralism is not merely an ethical requirement for such governance but a structural necessity: monocultural AI governance accelerates the very disempowerment it claims to prevent. We identify concrete policy levers, discuss implementation tensions, and outline a research agenda at the intersection of pluralistic alignment and cultural AI governance.
翻译:文化是人类被人工智能渐进式剥夺的最隐蔽途径:与经济或政治剥夺不同,文化剥夺直接侵蚀那些使人类能够识别并抵抗剥夺本身的偏好与价值观。我们认为,现有的人工智能治理框架存在一个关键盲点——将文化影响视为次于经济和安全问题的次要因素。本文提出"记忆捕获"作为人工智能驱动的文化剥夺的统一概念,并构建了一个四层政策架构——**文化多元治理框架(CPGF)**,该架构整合了定量文化影响力指标、民主价值集会、多元部署标准及跨国协调机制。我们论证:多元主义不仅是此类治理的伦理要求,更是结构性必要条件——单一文化的人工智能治理反而会加速其声称要阻止的剥夺过程。文中识别了具体政策杠杆,讨论了实施中的张力,并勾勒出多元对齐与文化人工智能治理交叉领域的研究议程。