David Gunkel
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
- Newly published interview in "Fuori Luogo. Journal of Sociology of the Territory, Tourism, Technology" serena.sharepress.it/index.php/fu...
- First single from the Trash Kickers, featuring Stanisław Gunkel on guitar and production. When I first heard it, I thought it must have been early Dictators..which just means we have not heard stuff like this for a few decades. Highly recommended. open.spotify.com/track/4eHKJT...
- - Publication Alert - "Nominal Problems: From Artificial Intelligence to Cybernetics." Focus article in the latest issue of "Reti Saperi Linguaggi" the Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences. www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.12832...
- The one slide from my presentation for the @sentientfutures.bsky.social Summit that pretty much sums up everything I am going to be talking about. 8 February 2026, San Francisco USA www.sentientfutures.ai/sfsbay2026
- I teamed up with @annapuzio.bsky.social and @joshgellers.bsky.social to write this polemic response to recent criticisms of the relational turn in #AIEthics, including the recently published "Dangerous Liaisons" from Adrienne de Ruiter. @springer.springernature.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- I had the opportunity to talk with Thomas Macaulay for his recent piece about the invisible human labor behind #AI. Published today in @agiethicsnews.bsky.social. And it's always a pleasure to share the spotlight with the incomparable Julie Carpenter. agi.fightersteel.com/hidden-human...
- What's an #AI music experiment like The Big Dada Project to do when a platform like @bandcamp.com issues a blanket prohibition against #AI generated content? Easy answer, generate a song about it. gunkelweb.com/BigDada youtube.com/shorts/BfJBd...
- #Derrida & #AI is having a moment. New essay from Víctor Betriu Yáñez and published in OLR. With shout-outs to three of my recent publications on this subject. (@philiplaughlin.bsky.social good timing for "The Différance Engine" book @mitpress.bsky.social) olrsupplement.com/2026/01/15/i...
- The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others. - My chapter for "Robophilosophy" @mitpress.bsky.social The book is now available #OpenAccess and you can get your own copy by following this link: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
- As much as I love the Alfred Jarry play, I don't think I was prepared for the recent staging of it as an immersive experience.
- What's the point of waiting for the debates about #AI #consciousness to be resolved? Rights are a no brainer. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
- Just completed the final item--the Acknowledgments--for the "Understanding Artificial Intelligence" book, coming soon from @politybooks.bsky.social And like "The Machine Question" @mitpress.bsky.social 2012, I again conclude by thanking the machines.
- Finally something about #LLM involvement in academic publishing that gets it right. The problem is not #AISlop vs. genuine human generated content. The problem--actually the opportunity AND challenge--is "Automatenwissenschaft." Short essay by @seva.bsky.social hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
- Today is publication release date for "Robophilosophy" edited by Johanna Seibt, @raulhakli.bsky.social and Marco Nørskov. My contribution (chapter one) is titled "The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others." @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026204498...
- I was interviewed for and quoted in this @zdnet.bsky.social article on Chatbots written by Webb Wright. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
- I was--along with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social--quoted in this new @wired.com article from Reece Rogers. www.wired.com/story/expire...
- 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...
- 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 hackettpublishing.com/new-forthcom...
- 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
- 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...
- Yes, this is about drugs. Oil is a drug, and we are addicts. (Image prompted by me, generated by ChatGPT)
- 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-...
- --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...
- "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" New #AI generated song from The Big Dada Project. suno.com/s/iL9Q3mgX3X...
- 🇵🇪 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.
- 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.
- 🇵🇱 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.
