
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).




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 #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…



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!





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.


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

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 : )




Today David J. Gunkel and I launch our book in Vienna, feel free to join us!

