王小伟 / Wang Xiaowei

Overview

王小伟 / Wang Xiaowei is the Renmin University philosophy professor and artificial-intelligence governance researcher interviewed by 不合时宜 about AI, technology philosophy, intimacy, work, emotion, education, and everyday life.

Current Profile

The current wiki profile is source-scoped to one public podcast conversation. Wang is introduced as a professor in the School of Philosophy at 中国人民大学 and a researcher at an artificial-intelligence governance institute. In the episode she uses technology philosophy to ask how AI changes not only productivity, but the conditions of love, judgment, education, work meaning, and daily life.

Her position is balanced rather than anti-AI. She uses AI herself for reflection, argument, and self-analysis, and she recognizes that AI companionship can matter for lonely or vulnerable adults. Her caution is that smoothness, responsiveness, and optimization may hide losses in reciprocity, bodily co-presence, life rhythm, independent judgment, and ordinary human support.

Key Characteristics

• Public philosopher applying technology philosophy to ordinary AI-era life rather than only to technical capability.
• Treats AI companionship as ethically complex: useful in some conditions, but different from human intimacy because human recognition carries vulnerability, effort, and mortality.
• Warns that large models can become judgment infrastructure when people use them for intimate, family, educational, and moral advice.
• Connects modern work anxiety to the loss of stable collective narrative and the pressure to use work as self-realization.
• Defends friction, waiting, boredom, body, friendship, and non-optimized time as part of living rather than as inefficiencies to eliminate.

Evidence

• Academic role - 在科技时代，重新理解我们的爱、工作与生活 introduces Wang as a Renmin University philosophy professor and AI governance researcher.
• Technology-philosophy frame - 在科技时代，重新理解我们的爱、工作与生活 has Wang define her concern as technology’s relation to human beings and the life-world.
• AI intimacy position - 在科技时代，重新理解我们的爱、工作与生活 says AI partners may become technically easy and sometimes legitimate, while human love depends on cost, vulnerability, shared life, and mortality in ways AI may not share.
• Judgment and dependence - 在科技时代，重新理解我们的爱、工作与生活 records her worry that model value defaults and repeated AI use can erode people’s judgment capacity.
• Return-to-life argument - 在科技时代，重新理解我们的爱、工作与生活 closes with Wang resisting a KPI-like solution and returning to body, scenery, friends, and daily experience.

Qualifications

This page is based on one episode and should not be treated as a complete academic biography or full account of Wang’s scholarship. Claims about her institutional role, book, AI use, and philosophical position remain source-scoped until supported by additional sources.

What Changed

• Created the entity from the 不合时宜 episode on AI-era life.

Relationships

• 不合时宜 - podcast that interviewed her.
• 中国人民大学 - institutional affiliation named in the source.
• 《重新回到生活：科技时代的工作、情绪、爱情和死亡》 - book discussed in the episode.
• Technology Philosophy / 技术哲学 - field through which the episode frames her work.
• AI Judgment Infrastructure / AI判断基础设施 - concept grounded in her warning about AI as outsourced judgment.
• Life Time Versus Machine Time / 生命时间与机器时间 - work and life-rhythm concept grounded in her efficiency critique.