论文标题
解释的合法性，权威和民主职责
Legitimacy, Authority, and Democratic Duties of Explanation
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论文摘要
越来越秘密，复杂且难以理解的计算系统被用来加强现有的电力关系并创建新的电力关系。特别是，它们被用来治理。要成为全部思想的道德允许的新的或新的强度，权力关系必须符合程序合法性和适当权威的标准。这对于他们保护和实现个人自由，关系平等和集体自决的民主价值是必要的。为了使政权尤其是合法并拥有适当的权威，它必须满足宣传要求：受过统治社区的合理有能力的成员必须能够确定他们在合法和适当的权威下受到统治。只有在有权势向其政治社区成员解释他们的决策时，才能满足宣传要求。因此，至少有一些解释的职责是民主职责。本文首先列出了上述论点，然后将其应用于不透明的计算系统，并准确阐明了满足这些民主价值观的必要解释。
Increasingly secret, complex and inscrutable computational systems are being used to intensify existing power relations and to create new ones; in particular, they are being used to govern. To be all-things-considered morally permissible new, or newly intense, power relations must meet standards of procedural legitimacy and proper authority. This is necessary for them to protect and realise democratic values of individual liberty, relational equality, and collective self-determination. For governing power in particular to be legitimate and have proper authority, it must meet a publicity requirement: reasonably competent members of the governed community must be able to determine that they are being governed legitimately and with proper authority. The publicity requirement can be satisfied only if the powerful can explain their decision-making to members of their political community. At least some duties of explanation are therefore democratic duties. This paper first sets out the foregoing argument, then applies it to opaque computational systems, and clarifies precisely what kinds of explanations are necessary to fulfil these democratic values.
