Julie Carpenter, PhD
Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, & attachment. Author: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." jgcarpenter.com
- Also: Asimov’s “Laws of Robotics” are fiction, a narrative device for his scifi world-building. The Laws are a literary constraint, not a real world robotics. science, or AI safety framework
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDTo everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
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- Watermelon is the best Jolly Rancher flavor. Green Apple tries hard, though.
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhD"I don't know that I've seen before the president of the United States attempt to build a white supremacist army within the government....that is new, and I don't know what else to call it." Ta-Nehisi Coates joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
- "Letters in the Mouth" is about genAI responsibility at the org level: delegated language that persists. When orgs deploy genAI designed to stay responsive and authoritative, they own the duty to set limits and stop, not hide behind disclaimers after harm. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
- New essay (no ads or paywall): "Letters in the Mouth." On generative AI, delegated action, and what happens when responsibility withdraws while systems keep speaking. The golem still helps explain failure when creator custody erodes. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDOpenAI's new "Education for Countries" program, which "will work with governments and university consortia to bring AI into education systems", is based on, well, a farcically self-serving understanding of "the history of technology" and an even worse view of education 🤢 openai.com/index/edu-fo...
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- A reminder that the sun has hobbies, and one of them is world disruption.
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDIt’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
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- I joined the @cyborggoddess.bsky.social podcast to talk about how cultural assumptions, power, and interpretation shape the way robots are built, deployed, and understood, and what that reveals about us. cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDEvery person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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- Every tech CEO misunderstands their so-called favorite stories, especially the parts about restraint, ethics, collective governance, and not having emperors.
- Are we doing starter packs again? Include me in your niche #AI-critical, #mediaTheory, #HAI, #ethics, #UXR lineups, please and thank you. <3
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- “She sparkled.” May her memory be a blessing.
- KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social Jana Shortal Renee Good’s wife has a statement. Hear it in full no edits, here.
- When visibility in enforcement encounters arrives late, selectively, or through informal recordings rather than accountable systems, it doesn’t clarify what happened, it narrows who gets to interpret it.. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- Enforcement footage doesn’t just document events, it structures interpretation. It invites viewer interpretation without context, shifting scrutiny onto recorded people while institutions remain opaque. "Visibility Without Consent" (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhD“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
- This @iethics.bsky.social panel conversation on autonomous weapons is up! Accountability, human oversight limits, & consequences of lethal decisions delegated to systems optimized for speed. These questions are no longer theoretical, & not confined to military contexts. youtu.be/3lJhGbVIjSg?...
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDWalz: "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDNew: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
- ChatGPT Health doesn’t replace healthcare; it consolidates health data and inserts an always-on AI interpretive layer between patients and care. New post (no paywall), "ChatGPT Health and the Expansion of Infrastructural Intimacy": jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDMinnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026
- “Meet without meeting” and “be in two places at once” are not worker benefits. They’re managerial fantasies that erase absence, rest, and limits while keeping output intact. This is a labor fantasy where workers never fully log off, never fully leave, and never quite stop meeting even when absent.
- Her name is Renee Nicole Good. May her memory be a blessing.
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- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDNEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
- Your daily reminder that LLMs are software trained on large-scale human-produced data that contains historical and contemporary biases, exclusions, stereotypes, and power asymmetries. At scale, these systems amplify patterns that already exist in that data. It's bigotry presented as knowledge.
- On innercalling w/ Dr. Victoria Ranade, we unpacked how AI is designed to engage us, why it shouldn’t be treated as therapy or emotional counsel, and what we lose when we outsource understanding and decision-making to systems that optimize engagement, not wellbeing. open.spotify.com/episode/5GhJ...
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- Watching the AI labor market is revealing. The questions being asked in public about trust, legitimacy, policy, ethical, and social consequences closely resemble work many of us have been doing for years. The jobs being posted, less so.
- Reposted by Julie Carpenter, PhDI think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
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- Final version submitted for publication. 🥳
- Thinking about how many technologies assume confidence as a default setting, and how little room they leave for hesitation. "The Expectation of Immediate Knowing: How generative AI reframes hesitation as a deficit" jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- I’ve been reading a new review on “techno-emotional projection” in human–AI relationships, and it’s striking how many conversations about attachment, relational asymmetry, and synthetic socialness are still framed as if the post-Nass literature doesn’t exist.
- As generative AI systems produce immediate, fluent output, hesitation is becoming socially misread. A pause, or the phrase "I don't know," used to mark judgment and even signal others to collaborate; now it’s treated as friction. New essay up, no paywall: jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
- If it’s possible, please keep sharing these links because reach matters. Sadly, 2025 brought me unemployment & health problems: savings are gone, no retirement funds left to draw from, and there’s no family support to fall back on. GFM: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-... Venmo: @jgcarpenter.com
- Related, please see this relevant thread I posted about the amazing amount of personal data that can be harvested from any of your "smart" (talking or not) appliances & how it could be used: bsky.app/profile/jgca...
- Describing ChatGPT voice mode as “probably” therapy highlights a real-world symptom: people map care onto AI systems without clinical training, no duty of care, no safeguards, no understanding, and no accountability. I unpacked the harms and design consequences here: jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
