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David Gunkel
@davidgunkel.bsky.social
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Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com

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David J. Gunkel is an American academic and Presidential Teaching Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University. He teaches courses in web design and programming, information and communication technology (ICT), and cyberculture. His research and publications examine the philosophical assumptions and ethical consequences of ICT. .. more

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · Nov 15
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. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254247...
Deconstruction
An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.This v...
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 1d
Must have been delicious.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 1d
Airbus...decent airplane.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 1d
Airplane food...and I used the word "food" with some hesitation.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent...see you soon.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 3d
I was interviewed for and quoted in this @zdnet.bsky.social article on Chatbots written by Webb Wright.
www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
The sneaky ways AI chatbots keep you hooked - and coming back for more
The rise of social media turned human attention into a commodity. Now, the AI race is taking that to new heights.
www.zdnet.com

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 3d
I was--along with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social--quoted in this new @wired.com article from Reece Rogers.
www.wired.com/story/expire...
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business
After years of hype about generative AI increasing productivity and making lives easier, 2025 was the year erotic chatbots defined AI’s narrative.
www.wired.com

Reposted by Mark Coeckelbergh

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 3d
Chinese translation of the book that I recently wrote with @coeckelbergh.bsky.social "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social has just been published and is now available. www.taaze.tw/products/111...
當AI取得話語權，人類還剩下什麼？：以當代哲學與溝通理論探討AI的語言、意識與作者權威性問題- TAAZE 讀冊生活
當AI取得話語權，人類還剩下什麼？：以當代哲學與溝通理論探討AI的語言、意識與作者權威性問題. Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models. 馬克．科克爾柏格、大衛．岡克爾. 江鈺婷. 商周出版. 9786263907829. Chat GPT、Gemini、Grok、Claude...各種AI工具現世，能寫...
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 4d
I had the opportunity to read and provide a blurb/review for the new book from @svennyholm.bsky.social "The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" @hackettpub.bsky.social

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svennyholm.bsky.social Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 4d
Coming soon: my new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*. More info - including three very generous blurbs from @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @briandavidearp.bsky.social, & Crystal L'Hote, PhD - here: hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom...
#aiethics #philosophy

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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 4d
Coming soon: my new book *The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction*. More info - including three very generous blurbs from @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @briandavidearp.bsky.social, & Crystal L'Hote, PhD - here: hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom...
#aiethics #philosophy

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 5d
There isn't one planned. But if it would help you, we can certainly do a volume three.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 5d
I had the opportunity to read and provide a back cover blurb for John-Stewart Gordon's fantastic new book with Palgrave Macmillan "The Robot Rights Manifesto." Available now. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 6d
If/when you do, I'd be interested in your thoughts, comments...even complaints. Thanks.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 6d
Interested to see what you do with that.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 7d
And that's an understatement.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 7d
He doesn't need to. He knows you have already judged yourself : )

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 7d
Yes, this is about drugs.
Oil is a drug, and we are addicts.
(Image prompted by me, generated by ChatGPT)

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 7d
The book "Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability" @Palgrave edited by @raulhakli.bsky.social, @svennyholm.bsky.social, Marco Nørskov and Sladjana Nørskov is now out and available. I contributed a chapter titled: "Flip the Script: From Ontology to an Ethics of Otherness." doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability
This book is about social robots and their disruptive potential with respect to social environments and cultural institutions
doi.org

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 7d
--Think Différant--
Since mainstream analytic philosophy is clearly struggling to wrap its head around the writing of #LLM #AI, a better approach might be to consult the one philosopher who took WRITING seriously as a philosophical problem: Jacques Derrida. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 8d
There's always a next time...unfortunately.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 8d
"Maybe This Time We Get'er Right" - YouTube Version
New #AI generated song from The Big Dada Project
youtu.be/O8Dk47Hrdn0
Maybe This Time We Get'er Right
YouTube video by David Gunkel
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 8d
"Maybe This Time We Get'er Right"
New #AI generated song from The Big Dada Project.
suno.com/s/iL9Q3mgX3X...
Maybe This Time We Get'er Right
Listen and make your own on Suno.
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 8d
🇵🇪 Peru just provided empirical support for the RELATIONAL TURN that @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I along with @annapuzio.bsky.social, @joshgellers.bsky.social et al. have been promoting for over a decade. Proof that you can do this WITHOUT first resolving the hard problem of consciousness.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 10d
Same as it ever was going all the way back to Plato's "Phaedrus" and the pharmacology of the then new technology of writing.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 10d
NYE prediction in the wake of #MTV signing-off with The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star"

Just as video did not actually kill the radio star, #GenerativeAI is not going to kill the human artist.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 12d
🇵🇱 Moral and Legal Status of #AI and #Robots
Today @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social 15:00 Bracka 12, Room 203. And it is so good to be back in Kraków at this time of the year.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 14d
In what way? That is a direct quote of § 46.2-908.1:1-D.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 14d
This is factually is incorrect. Only legal persons have rights and obligations under the law, and that category excludes some members of the species homo sapiens while including some artifacts like corporations, organizations, and ships.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 14d
The book is 250+ pages and (for better or worse) that does not seem to be enough to tackle the complexity of this particular issue. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond
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
direct.mit.edu

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 15d
It's not about what the robot is or is not. It's about the mutual exclusive categories--person vs. thing--by which we situate it in our moral and legal systems.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 15d
🇵🇱 I will be lecturing on my 15+ years of research on the moral and legal status of #AI and #Robots at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social on 30 December 2025 | 15:00 Bracka 12, Kraków (Room 203). Open to all interested in #AI, #law, and #ethics.