In this paper, I argue that AI-powered voice assistants, just as all technologies, actively mediate our interpretative structures, including values. I show this by explaining the productive role of technologies in the way people make sense of themselves and those around them. More specifically, I rely on the hermeneutics of Gadamer and the material hermeneutics of Ihde to develop a hermeneutic lemniscate as a principle of technologically mediated sense-making. The lemniscate principle links people, technologies and the sociocultural world in the joint production of meaning and explicates the feedback channels between the three counterparts. When people make sense of technologies, they necessarily engage their moral histories to comprehend new technologies and fit them in daily practices. As such, the lemniscate principle offers a chance to explore the moral dynamics taking place during technological appropriation. Using digital voice assistants as an example, I show how these AI-guided devices mediate our moral inclinations, decisions and even our values, while in parallel suggesting how to use and design them in an informed and critical way.

在本文中，我认为与所有技术一样，由AI驱动的语音助手也积极地调解了我们的解释结构，包括价值。我通过解释技术在人们理解自己和周围人的方式中的生产性作用来证明这一点。更具体地说，我依靠伽达默尔诠释学和艾德（Ihde）的物质诠释学来发展诠释性象征，这是技术介导的感官建构的原理。命题原则在意义的共同产生中将人，技术和社会文化世界联系在一起，并阐明了三个对应者之间的反馈渠道。当人们了解技术时，他们必然会参与自己的道德历史，以理解新技术并使它们适应日常实践。因此，lemniscate原理为探索技术专用权中发生的道德动力提供了机会。我以数字语音助手为例，展示了这些AI指导的设备如何调解我们的道德倾向，决策甚至我们的价值观，同时建议如何以知情和关键的方式使用和设计它们。