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David J. Gunkel

@david_gunkel

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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DoA 2.0 - Death of the Author 2.0 Presentation (or more like a quick "elevator pitch") at #SPT2025 with pointers to the Noema Magazine article "#AI Signals the Death of the Author" and the book "Communicative #AI" Polity (written with Mark Coeckelbergh).

DoA 2.0 - Death of the Author 2.0
Presentation (or more like a quick "elevator pitch") at #SPT2025 with pointers to the <a href="/NoemaMag/">Noema Magazine</a> article "#AI Signals the Death of the Author" and the book "Communicative #AI" <a href="/politybooks/">Polity</a> (written with <a href="/MCoeckelbergh/">Mark Coeckelbergh</a>).
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- #AI Personhood - I had the opportunity to contribute this chapter on AI personhood to the recently published "A Companion to the Applied Philosophy of #AI" ed. by Martin Hähnel and Regina Müller. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/97…

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UPDATE - AI Welfare/Robot Rights Concept Map New publication from Hayate Shimizu in "AI & Ethics" SpringerEthics "Should We Treat Robots Morally: Towards a Relational Account by Mind-Infusing Animism." You can now find Hayate situated in the Thinking Otherwise area on the map.

UPDATE - AI Welfare/Robot Rights Concept Map
New publication from <a href="/Hayate_Shimizu/">Hayate Shimizu</a> in "AI &amp; Ethics" <a href="/SpringerEthics/">SpringerEthics</a> "Should We Treat Robots Morally: Towards a Relational Account by Mind-Infusing Animism." You can now find Hayate situated in the Thinking Otherwise area on the map.
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UPDATE #2 - AI Welfare/Robot Rights I had forgotten to add Aybike Tunç to the map. I now rectify that oversight. Aybike's position in the Thinking Otherwise zone is based on her incredibly insightful contribution to the Oxford Academic intersections project. doi.org/10.1093/978019…

UPDATE #2 - AI Welfare/Robot Rights 
I had forgotten to add <a href="/_aybig_/">Aybike Tunç</a> to the map. I now rectify that oversight. Aybike's position in the Thinking Otherwise zone is based on her incredibly insightful contribution to the <a href="/OUPAcademic/">Oxford Academic</a> intersections project.  doi.org/10.1093/978019…
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If the book "Person, Thing, Robot" The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is TL:DR for you, then this short chapter in "A Companion to Applied Philosophy of #AI" Wiley might be more your speed. Available now. wiley.com/en-us/A+Compan…

If the book "Person, Thing, Robot" <a href="/mitpress/">The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social</a> is TL:DR for you, then this short chapter in "A Companion to Applied Philosophy of #AI" <a href="/WileyGlobal/">Wiley</a> might be more your speed. Available now. wiley.com/en-us/A+Compan…
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Warning for all tech-bro human colonizers... Not only is Mars the only planet exclusively inhabited by robots. But as argued in "Person, Thing, Robot" The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social, robots are non-binary and "a queer sort of thing." Robot Liberation!

Warning for all tech-bro human colonizers... 
Not only is Mars the only planet exclusively inhabited by robots. But as argued in "Person, Thing, Robot" <a href="/mitpress/">The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social</a>, robots are non-binary and "a queer sort of thing."  Robot Liberation!
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Inquiring whether #LLMs can model the world (or when they will able to do so) is asking the wrong question. Image from my "Death of the Author 2.0" presentation at #SPT2025 Eindhoven 🇳🇱 And based on the new book "Communicative #AI" Polity

Inquiring whether #LLMs can model the world (or when they will able to do so) is asking the wrong question. Image from my "Death of the Author 2.0" presentation at #SPT2025 Eindhoven 🇳🇱 And based on the new book "Communicative #AI" <a href="/politybooks/">Polity</a>
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Since #AI is now--whether we wanted it or not--a technology closely affiliated with the far-right, what is the technology of the left? #Robots...and it's justified by the very etymology of the word.

Since #AI is now--whether we wanted it or not--a technology closely affiliated with the far-right, what is the technology of the left? #Robots...and it's justified by the very etymology of the word.
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In "Communicative #AI" Polity, Mark Coeckelbergh and I identify two ways to respond to the crisis of authorship with #LLM #AI: 1) put the author function on life support or 2) pull the plug and give up the ghost. We opt for the latter. Luciano Floridi goes with the former.

In "Communicative #AI" <a href="/politybooks/">Polity</a>, <a href="/MCoeckelbergh/">Mark Coeckelbergh</a> and I identify two ways to respond to the crisis of authorship with #LLM #AI: 1) put the author function on life support or 2) pull the plug and give up the ghost. We opt for the latter. Luciano Floridi goes with the former.
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Today I traveled to Salzburg 🇦🇹to visit with a good friend and colleague @[email protected]. I got to know Tales during the international project on alterity 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸 We rendezvous every couple of years, and it's always good to reconnect and catch up.

Today I traveled to Salzburg 🇦🇹to visit with a good friend and colleague <a href="/TalesTomaz/">@TalesTomaz@sciences.social</a>. I got to know Tales during the international project on alterity 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸 We rendezvous every couple of years, and it's always good to reconnect and catch up.
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Short video introduction to my chapter "Large Language Models: Logos without Ethos" published in "Ethos, Technology, and #AI in Contemporary Society." Edited by Aaron Hess and Jens Kjeldsen. Routledge Books youtu.be/B877Fgc795s

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I asked #ChatGPT whether #LLMs are "stochastic parrots" or a version of the infinite monkeys theorem. It responded with neither and used instead the #remix DJ metaphor that Mark Coeckelbergh and I develop in "Communicative #AI" jose gonzalez oregel. Nice to have some independent verification : )

I asked #ChatGPT whether #LLMs are "stochastic parrots" or a version of the infinite monkeys theorem. It responded with neither and used instead the #remix DJ metaphor that <a href="/MCoeckelbergh/">Mark Coeckelbergh</a> and I develop in "Communicative #AI" <a href="/polity/">jose gonzalez oregel</a>. Nice to have some independent verification : )
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TODAY (4 July 2025) Book Launch - "Communicative #AI" Polity 16:00 - University of Vienna. Erika-Weinzierl-Saal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

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At both #SPT2025 Eindhoven 🇳🇱 and the "Communicative #AI" book launch in Vienna 🇦🇹, we inevitably got involved in talking about #remix as a metaphor for #LLM tech and #AI generated content. It's a useful comparison, but there are important differences. ssrn.com/abstract=48603…

At both #SPT2025 Eindhoven 🇳🇱 and the "Communicative #AI" book launch in Vienna 🇦🇹, we inevitably got involved in talking about #remix as a metaphor for #LLM tech and #AI generated content. It's a useful comparison, but there are important differences. ssrn.com/abstract=48603…
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Crisis in Higher Ed. Instead of closing academic programs and liquidating both research and instructional talent in the name of "more practical majors" maybe we terminate the college major as an organizing principle and go back to educating "the whole person."