長期身体性AI関係におけるアイデンティティ連続性:エージェント固有のアイデンティティ表現から連続性評価まで
Identity Continuity in Long-Term Embodied AI Relationships: From Agent-Specific Identity Representation to Identity-Continuity Appraisal
長期運用される身体性AIが学習・更新・移行しても「同じエージェント」と感じられるかを、身体知覚・心理行動・関係自伝の3領域からなるユーザー側のアイデンティティ表現と連続性評価の枠組みとして提案した論文。
著者: Zijian Ru
分類: cs.HC, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Long-term embodied AI will undergo learning, model updates, memory compression, hardware repair, and migration across embodiments. For users who have formed sustained relationships with such systems, these changes raise not only a problem of product consistency but also one of identity continuity: whether the changed system is still experienced as the same particular agent. Existing research suggests that human-AI relationships may develop relational particularity, that robotics and artificial-identity research has identified identity and migration signals across embodiments, and that major updates or platform disruptions can be accompanied by relational loss and restoration desire. This article proposes a user-side framework in which long-term embodied AI is represented through an agent-specific identity representation organized by at least three open identity-content domains: embodied-perceptual, psychological-behavioral, and relational-autobiographical. Information from these domains is not equally weighted; shared history, relational roles, and contingent responsiveness may make some information more identity-diagnostic than others. After system change, users may integrate continuity and discontinuity evidence in a weighted manner, yielding judgments along a continuum from relatively strong identity continuity through ambiguity or partial continuity to clear identity discontinuity. Causal-historical provenance and user participation are treated as contextual evidence rather than a fourth identity-content domain. The framework also proposes identity continuity as a psychological objective for lifecycle design, including memory selection, model updating, and migration across embodiments, under constraints of privacy and user control.