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Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction.

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David J. Gunkel

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Professional Raison d'être: I apply the theory and practice of #Deconstruction to emerging technology ( #Algorithms , #AI , #robots , etc.), overturning and disrupting the traditional binary oppositions by which we have made sense of our tools and ourselves.

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David J. Gunkel

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Words Matter. Because it was called "artificial intelligence" ( #AI ), we are now forced into debating whether #LLMs are conscious, sentient or intelligent. Had we gone with "Cybernetics," we'd only have to address and decide questions concerning communication and control.

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#Derrida was right (again)! What makes #ChatGPT so disturbing and disorienting is that it interrupts the fundamental belief of (Western) logocentric metaphysics. It writes without speaking. It therefore disconnects the written word from the living voice of the speaker.

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It's publication day! With brilliant contributions from: @SvenNyholm @EileenMHunt @voxbec @CindyFriedman23 @ElkeSchwarz @ProfChesterman @JoshGellers @profjecker @Lilyfrank16 @klincewiczm @DrSyedMustafaA1 @Sonamsangbo @eduardfosch @JcMalgieri @romelealberto @Wolven et al.

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Only #Cybernetics can save us now (with apologies to Martin Heidegger): One way to disrupt/interrupt the #ChatGPT hype and moral outrage...don't call the technology #AI or (what is worse) nascent #AGI . Call it what it is: a machine of communication and control.

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Book cover reveal: We just finalized the cover image for "Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond" @mitpress Coming this September.

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#Longtermism is what happens when the privileged white-kid in your moral philosophy class takes it upon himself to embrace utilitarianism as the ONLY moral theory that makes sense and then decides that everyone else should also drink the KoolAid.

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Don’t Go Down That AI Longtermism Rabbit Hole

Silicon Valley is fixated on longtermism — prioritizing future lives over those living today. This is very tricky moral math.

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If what is called "education" is restricted to the transmission of existing knowledge, then this might be accurate. If, however, education is understood as cultivating critical thinkers who can question existing knowledge, then this is not going to get the job done.

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OpenAI's GPT-4o has just revolutionized and dramatically democratized education! Now, every student can have a perfect teacher on any imaginable topic!

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David J. Gunkel

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#Robot --the word and the concept--is 100-years old today. 25 January marks the centenary of the first public performance of Karel Čapek's "R.U.R." (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti), the stage play that first fabricated and introduced the word #Robot to the world. #WorldRobotDay

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Shift in Perspective: #ArtificialIntelligence is not a #technology ; it is an ideology. And the idea that #AI is a technology is itself part and parcel of its ideological formation--that part that conceals the fact that it is ideology.

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"The Handbook on the #Ethics of #AI " @ElgarPublishing has a cover. Coming soon with contributions from @SvenNyholm @JoshGellers @EileenMHunt @ElkeSchwarz @CindyFriedman23 @Lilyfrank16 @ProfChesterman @profjecker @DrSyedMustafaA1 @minsunkim @Wolven @Sonamsangbo @eduardfosch et al.

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While philosophers and linguistics mainly talk about "stochastic parrots" and argue that LLMs do not use language like humans, neuroscientists seem to have an altogether different approach to things.

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David J. Gunkel

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Entering stage 5 of AI Regulation: 1) Denial - We don't need no regulation 2) Anger - You are going to kill innovation! 3) Bargaining - Let's make a self-regulation deal 4) Depression - Sigh...we might need policy 5) Acceptance - Yeah...but don't rush it

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Google chief Sundar Pichai warns against rushing into AI regulation

Rules should be made sector-by-sector and blanket vetting must be avoided, he says

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#NowReading @MCoeckelbergh "The Political Philosophy of AI" @politybooks Really important contribution, demonstrating that much of what has been called #AIEthics maybe should be reclassified as #AIPolitics . Just arrived yesterday and I am already deep into it. Brilliant stuff.

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"Handbook on the Ethics of AI" @ElgarPublishing Coming July 2024. But why wait. You can now read the Introduction online at @SSRN #AIethics #robotrights #ethics #law

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New dog, new essay "Perspectives on the Ethics of AI: Philosophy" in "The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI" @OUPAcademic ed. by @MarkusDubber @FrankPasquale & Sunit Das With load of good stuff from @j2bryson @vdignum @JohnDanaher and many many more.

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It is gratifying to see #AI / #AIEthics finally rediscovering and acknowledging the work of Joseph Weizenbaum (better late than never). Now do the same for Terry Winograd.

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🇩🇪In Berlin for a conference on #LLMs and philosophy and just received a desk reject from a journal that said "we have yet to be persuaded that there is anything of philosophical significance with this technology." Last time this happened was in 1994 for an essay on the Internet.

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I am really pleased to present the "Handbook on the Ethics of AI" @ElgarPublishing and for 4 reasons: 1) This is book #16 for me. 2) It includes brilliant chapters from researchers who I truly admire. 3) It diversifies the field of #aiethics 4) And it's got a great cover.

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David J. Gunkel

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Now Available #OpenAccess The eBook of "Person, Thing, Robot" is now available and ready for download. #OpenAccess for this title made available by @mitpress D2O (Direct to Open).

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David J. Gunkel

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Back to the Future Opportunity. Because the term #AI has become so fraught and fought over, one possible rebranding opportunity is to return to the sidelined moniker "cybernetics." What we currently call #AI is really just the science and engineering of communication and control.

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I love the fact that "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress is available as a free download as part of the D2O (direct to open) initiative at @mitpress But there's still something about holding the physical book in your hands. Author copies arrived yesterday.

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David J. Gunkel

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#AI should not be called #AI My second essay on #cybernetics as an alternative name for what has been called AI. This one published by @IAI_TV and featuring citations of Jaron Lanier ( @nytimes ), Ted Chaing ( @FT ), @quinta and @emilymbender

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AI is not intelligent

The act of naming is more than just a simple labeling exercise; it's a potent exercise of power with political implications. As the discourse around AI intensifies, it may be time to reassess its...

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David J. Gunkel

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RIP Daniel Dennett I began reading @danieldennett following the advice of @j2bryson , who pointed me to "Brainstorms" @mitpress and the essay "Why You Can't Make a Computer that Feels Pain." His work was pivotal for so many of us. A true giant in the philosophy of #AI .

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David J. Gunkel

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I am honored and pleased to announce that I have just been named "2021 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor" @NIUlive With gratitude to my dept @NIU_DeptofComm and @m_semati for their support. And to @edwardschad for the nice quote.

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NIU Today - David Gunkel named 2021 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor

NIU has named Communication Professor David Gunkel, an internationally acclaimed scholar of information technology, as a 2021 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor. The award is...

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"Handbook on the Ethics of AI" - @ElgarPublishing Coming July 2024

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"I'm sorry, Dave. But I cannot comply with that request." - ChatGPT operationalizing Asimov's 3 laws of robotics. #AIEthics

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David J. Gunkel

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I have not been to my university office in months (since mid-March). And now we see what happens. This is how the uprising begins.

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This is the desert of the real. In our open letter, we call for a 2 month global pause on the deployment of #GenAI and diffusion models to give everyone a chance to get up to speed with Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulations."

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David J. Gunkel

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"Handbook on the #ethics of #AI " @ElgarPublishing can now be previewed at @Google books. You can read the entire introduction and have a look at many of the chapters. Unlike previous handbooks, this one is dedicated to diversifying the field of #AIethics

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Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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In our open letter we call for a pause on powerful #AI thought leaders spewing half-baked philosophical ideas in order to give them time to do some rudimentary reading in the history of philosophy.

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David J. Gunkel

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My Doktorvater David Farrell Krell once told us that "A book is never finished; it is abandoned at a certain point." Today I abandon the book "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress to its fate. God speed.

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Just completed revisions for what will now become the third part of the Machine Question trilogy. @mitpress #writing #AIEthics #robotrights

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--Back to Baudrillard-- With #AIArt , #LLMs like #GPT4 and #BardAI , and the impending general dissolution of the indexical theory of the sign, we have actualized what Jean Baudrillard had theorized in "Simulacra and Simulation" (1981).

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#AI is not the problem; the problem is the asymmetrical distribution of power under capitalism. Efforts at #AI alignment, transparency, etc. not only target a symptom rather than the cause but also risk providing cover for hegemony.

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Interesting and timely piece from Nolan Gertz demonstrating (once again) that we do not have an #AI problem. What we have is a capitalism problem. Technological optimism and technological pessimism are both technological determinist thinking.

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The day the AI dream died

AI's promise was to solve problems, not only of the day but all future obstacles as well. Yet the hype has started to wear off. Amidst the growing disillusionment, Nolen Gertz challenges the prevai...

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For #ChatGPT the limits of its language (model) are the limits of its world. - Wittgenstein was right (again).

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David J. Gunkel

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#Cybernetics Week The first of two short-read essays/manifestos proposing that we replace the now rather fraught and controversial term "artificial intelligence" #AI with #cybernetics . This one published in @SublationMag (with thanks to @Leftist_Gamer ).

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@RealSophiaRobot We hear you.... Start here #robotrights @mitpress

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While #BigTech long-termists and #AIEthics debate open letters, this new #OpenAccess book from @spillteori takes a more holistic both/and perspective of #AI and its impact on the current state and future possibilities of our fragile planet.

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Two ways #AIethics can go wrong: 1) #AI experts who know little about #philosophy and therefore tend to rely on religious traditions and gut instincts. 2) Moral philosophers who know little about the actual workings of #AI and therefore tend to rely on science fiction.

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The current debate/conversation about #LLMs and the "end of writing" proceeds from the mistaken assumption that we already know what writing is and what it is for. This is a mistake that can only be corrected by "Grammatology." #derrida

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Let's see if this helps.....Read the fine print.

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David J. Gunkel

2 years

"Person, Thing, Robot" @mitprees has a placeholder. Shit just got real. Publication scheduled for September 2023.

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Just completed reading @tonyjprescott 's "The Psychology of #AI " @routledgebooks It's a concise volume chocked full of well-crafted material and very accessible explanations that will be of use to anyone trying to make sense of #AI #genAI #LLMs etc.

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David J. Gunkel

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#TayTweets Part of #Tay 's reprogramming has involved intense sessions with ELIZA, the first therapist chatter bot.

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New essay from Paolo Monti on the moral status of #LLM #genAI based on the Habermasian theory of communicative action with useful contributions to the debate about #AI authorship and public discourse. Available #OpenAccess from "Etica & Politica"

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Cover reveal. #AI for Communication - @routledgebooks

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"Handbook on the #Ethics of #AI " @ElgarPublishing Try before you buy with the Intro and two of the chapters available to read online Intro and chapter 1 by @SvenNyholm available here: Chapter 2 by @EileenMHunt available here:

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Ethics is a No-Brainer. If you wait for definitive proof of consciousness or sentience to determine "who" to treat with respect and "what" to exclude from moral consideration, you are always already too late. This is the primary insight of The Machine Question trilogy @mitpress

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Out of curiosity, I prompted Dall-E to generate an image of a Lego playset for an #AI that is 100% compliant with the #AIAct

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David J. Gunkel

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Today's MUST read essay: "The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review" by Jamie Harris and @jacyanthis of @SentienceInst . Published in @SpringerEthics "Science and Engineering Ethics." #RobotRights #AIEthics

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Pleased to announce publication (with co-author @JoshGellers ) of "Artificial Intelligence and International Human Rights Law" in "Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and AI" @ElgarPublishing , eds. @Andrej_Zwitter @OskarGstrein

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I am thrilled to announce that the "Handbook of the Ethics of AI" is now in production at @ElgarPublishing The collection features 21 chapter designed to diversify the field of #aiethics in both content and form. Print and ebook editions will be available later this year.

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#Deconstruction - @mitpress EKS book An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.

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Only literary theory can save us now. Responses to #ChatGPT —from linguists, computer scientists, philosophers—seek to reassert the already flimsy and failing logocentric metaphysics that is the operating system of Western thought. The cure might also be (as much of) a problem.

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"This paper reflects on the tech industry’s colonization of the AI ethics research field and addresses conflicts of interest in public policymaking concerning AI." New #OpenAccess essay from Anne Gerdes in "Discover AI" @SpringerEthics

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If what is called #aiethics is really less about the technology of #AI and more about the conduct of the multinational corporations that build, deploy, and market the technology why not call it what it is: Business Ethics?

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David J. Gunkel

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#robotrights just got very real. Can/should an #AI #chatbot (like #Bingchat ) have the right to privacy? Did @kevinroose at @NYTimes and staff writers at @washingtonpost violate these rights by not obtaining consent from the #AI ?

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Author's preprint of my contribution to "The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI" @OUPAcademic Now available for quick and easy download.

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#Deconstruction in a box. My author copies just arrived. Thanks to @mitpress and @PhilipLaughlin . This is number 13 in total and number 4 from MIT Press. And the thrill of opening the box never gets old.

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Anthropomorphism of #robots / #AI is not a bug to be eliminated; it is a feature. And it is a feature that we (human beings) must learn how to manage effectively. New essay from Nicolas Spatola and Thierry Chaminade in @ElsevierConnect

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Six of the seven items list in this @techreview article are very reasonable. Unfortunately, no. 5 "Don't Anthropomorphize" is naive and unrealistic. Anthropomorphism is not a bug that can be eliminated; it is a feature of our (human) operating system.

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How to talk about AI (even if you don’t know much about AI)

Plus: Catching bad content in the age of AI.

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I beg you, if you work on #AIEthics , please learn something about moral philosophy (and not just the mainstream Western versions of it).

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I beg you, if you work on the Ethics of AI, please learn something about AI.

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#AI for Communication My next book is in the queue and will ship in Oct of 2024. This contribution to the "AI for..." series at @routledge demonstrates how key advancements in #AI not only disrupt, but also actively transform, human communication.

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AI for Communication

AI for Communication offers an engaging exploration into the diverse applications of artificial intelligence (AI) within the realm of communication. By bridging the gap between the scientific and...

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"Should Robots Have Standing?" #OpenAccess ebook of the @FrontRoboticsAI special issue edited by Anne Gerdes, @MCoeckelbergh and @David_Gunkel Now available in both pdf and epub formats

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"Can AI Determine its own Future?" It gives me great pleasure to announce publication of this new essay from @_aybig_ and published in "AI & Society" @SpringerEthics @aiethics #robotrights Highly recommended.

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In 2012, I published an essay on AI and communication. At that time, no mainstream communication journal would touch it (aka "desk reject"), so it appeared in the journal "Communication +1" Over a decade later, these ideas are now mainstream.

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COMING SOON I am editing "The Handbook on the #ethics of #AI " for @ElgarPublishing and just finished reading brilliant chapters by @Joshuak_Smith @JoshGellers @EileenMHunt @CindyFriedman23 @Wolven @SvenNyholm @ProfChesterman @ElkeSchwarz @DrSyedMustafaA1 @eduardfosch et al.

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Bernard Stiegler (following Blanchot) succinctly anticipates the defining condition/problem of #LLM #AI : "An impersonal knowledge, an authority without author, inheres in writing as technics." - "Technics and Time" vol. 2

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"Democratic AI" New concept and new research paper from @DeepMind and published in @NatureHumBehav This is where and why discussions and debates about #AIEthics need to pivot to #AIPolitics @MCoeckelbergh @JoshGellers @spillteori

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Who you calling "toaster?"

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#AI is and has always been a #communication science. It is time we disrupt the organizing principle of Alan Turing's "Imitation Game." Using language is not a sign of intelligence (critical or otherwise). We now have things that talk but do not think.

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Opinion: When It Comes to Critical Thinking, AI Flunks the Test

Large language models fail to live up to the hype.

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Here's an idea..... When your social robot start-up goes belly up (i.e @jibo and @anki ) open up the product line and turn over the hardware, software and cloud support to the users who (in many cases) funded the endeavor to begin with.

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"Deepfakes signal the insufficiency of existing ontology for navigating realities transformed by generative technologies." - New essay from Adeniyi Fasoro and published in "AI & Society" @SpringerPhil

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"Human Dignity in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Issues and Prospects" by Kizito Alakwe and published in "Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies." @_aybig_

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Reading page proofs for my contribution to the "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication," edited by @TeachGuz @s_t_e_v_e_jones & @rhondamcewen . #HMC @ICA_HMC

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As the guy who wrote the book (actually a trilogy of books for @mitpress ) on the moral and legal status of #AI and #Robots , I cannot state this emphatically enough: #AI / #robotrights (whatever those are and might become) are NOT #HumanRights

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@theblub @waterlego @RealSophiaRobot @mitpress You would not be the first. I re-titled my initial @mitpress book addressing this subject matter in response to a similar comment. "Pervert" means "to alter (something) from its original course." Ethics can only address animals, plants and machines by being "perverted."

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I had the opportunity to contribute the chapter "Robot Rights/Human Responsibility" to " #AI and #HumanRights " @OUPAcademic , ed. by Alberto Quintavalla and Jeroen Temperman

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Why "history of technology" is indispensible: Back when #hypertext had been considered "new technology," George Landow argued that it was the harbinger of the "end of writing" as we know it. 30+ years later, and we have the makings of a remake with #LLM and #GenerativeAI

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David J. Gunkel

9 months

No need to wait for the impending paper-clip maximizing superintelligent #AI to put an end to life on planet earth. We already have profit maximizing artifacts--aka multinational corporations--that have been ravaging the planet by turning everything into money.

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David J. Gunkel

1 year

Story idea for an Alternative History: Norbert Wiener crashes the first day of the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on #AI and with the help of Claude Shannon convinces the others to dump the focus on #intelligence and talk instead about #communication

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David J. Gunkel

2 years

Reproducing human intelligence is neither interesting nor efficient. 1) We can already reproduce human intelligence, it's called "children." 2) What we need is intelligence that is otherwise than human (e.g. bomb sniffing dogs) @grok_ #AI

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David J. Gunkel

4 months

What I like about the cover design for " #AI for Communication" @routledgebooks is the fact that it resembles this edition of Norbert Wiener's "The Human Use of Human Beings." Interestingly my book ends by proposing a reactualization of Cybernetics.

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David J. Gunkel

3 years

When I was a teen, geeks came in one of two flavors: those reading J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" series and those reading Isaac Asimov's "Foundation." The Tolkien group has had its moment. Now it's our turn. Lord, I hope they do not ruin it.

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David J. Gunkel

4 years

I am now thinking that we should have submitted "The Fall 2020 Semester" to IRB prior to beginning the experiment.

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David J. Gunkel

1 year

I am so very happy with and honored by these two fantastic endorsements from @grok_ and @MCoeckelbergh for the forthcoming @mitpress book "Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond"

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Just started reading Maneesha Deckha's "Animals as Legal Beings" @utpress and was pleasantly surprised to find that it contains one of the best readings of my "Vindication of the Rights of Machines" (2014) @SpringerEthics @JoshGellers

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University of Toronto Press - Animals as Legal Beings

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the s...

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David J. Gunkel

2 years

If the objective is "human-centered" #AI and #AIEthics that respects human values and flourishing, then why not invest in and grow the #Humanities , #arts and #socialsciences instead of dismantling existing programs and retrofitting the STEM fields with a module or two?

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David J. Gunkel

8 months

"The Moral Status of AI Entities" New essay from Joan Llorca Albareda, Paloma García & Francisco Lara and published in the book " #ethics of #AI " @SpringerEthics

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David J. Gunkel

5 years

History lesson. When the internet was new (at least as "new" as AI is now), we developed codes of Internet ethics and netiquette. But these turned out to be insufficient to protect us from the abuses at Facebook and elsewhere. So why do we assume #aiethics will be sufficient?

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David J. Gunkel

6 months

Relational-materialist approach to #GenAI Fascinating new essay from Claudio Celis Bueno, Pei-Sze Chow & Ada Popowicz published in "AI & Society" @SpringerPhil @MCoeckelbergh @cabitzaf

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David J. Gunkel

1 year

So very pleased to announce that my forth coming book "Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond" will be available #OpenAccess as a result of this innovative and forward thinking initiative from @mitpress

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MIT Press's Direct to Open (D2O) achieves second year goal, opens access to eighty-two new books in...

With 322 participating libraries and new consortium agreements, the D2O publishing model has now opened access to more than 160 scholarly monographs and edited collections.

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David J. Gunkel

11 months

#AIEthics mantra (repeat as necessary): Many of the problems that are identified as an #AI problem are actually a capitalism problem.

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David J. Gunkel

1 year

Today is the official publication date for "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress . Print copies are now available in the usual places. The ebook #OpenAccess edition will be available shortly.

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Person, Thing, Robot

Why robots defy our existing moral and legal categories and how to revolutionize the way we think about them.Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one h...

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David J. Gunkel

11 months

The most disturbing thing in Andreessen's "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" is the first word: "We..." Who is "we"? Who is included in this first person plural pronoun? And who is already excluded/marginalized? This little word does a lot of heavy lifting, and it's all about Power.

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David J. Gunkel

1 year

"The Relational Turn" Heute spreche ich an der Universität Bremen über das "Relational Turn" und das neue Buch "Person, Thing, Robot." @mitpress #robotrights #AIethics

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David J. Gunkel

2 months

"Handbook on the #ethics of #AI " @ElgarPublishing is now out and available. Cost of the paper bound edition is a bit pricey as it is intended for library acquisition (tell your librarian). But the ebook is very reasonable.

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