Can #AI Truly be Considered an Artist? My interview with John Williams on @WGNRadio about #GenerativeAI music in general and the Breaking Rust #AI hit in particular. wgnradio.com/john-william...

My interview on @kcbsradio.bsky.social about the Breaking Rust #AI generated country hit "Walk My Walk" and the opportunities/challenges of #GenAI music. www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

Business Ethics + Technological Determinism = #AIEthics

Because of reports about Breaking Rust's "Walk My Walk" topping one of the @billboard.com charts, this week has been the week for interviews about #AI generated music. Yesterday I was on @wifr.com TV, today it was @kcbsradio.bsky.social, and Friday it will be @wgnradio.bsky.social

Communicative #AI 🇸🇪 On Monday 8 December 2025, I will be presenting "Does Writing have a Future?" at @sodertornshogskola.bsky.social sh.se/kalender/kal...

When what has been Zuhandenheit flips over into Vorhandenheit. OpenAI is now having its own @awscloud.bsky.social moment.

Why Chatbot Feelings Matter Dr. David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social explains why you can’t dismiss human emotions toward chatbots — and how this connects to AI creativity, shifting laws, and the future of human originality. 🎧 Full episode: youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8 #AI #Chatbots #Tech #Ethics

The Moral Lines We Draw Aren’t What We Think Dr. David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social shows how our ethical boundaries — from pets to insects to AI — are social choices, not fixed truths. And those choices matter more than ever. ▶️ Full episode: youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8 #AI #Ethics #Podcast

Is AI Actually Thinking? Dr. David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social breaks down how prediction creates the illusion of thought. The full episode dives into creativity, originality, and the legal challenges ahead. 🔗 Listen here: youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8 #TechPhilosophy #AIandLaw #podcast

The Roman “person vs thing” divide is cracking. With Prof. David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social , we ask why AI like ChatGPT can feel almost alive—and what that means for law, creativity, and how we classify machines. 🎙 Full episode: youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8 #AI #AIEthics #TechAndSociety

Breaking Rust is getting shit for being #AI generated slop. But the fact is, every contemporary country song and every "real" country artist is a carefully constructed pop-culture artifact. #GenerativeAI just reveals the fact that recorded music has always been a simulation.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the album "Weird AI" from Big Dada Project is now complete and available. This accordion-driven effort consists of nine #AI generated songs about #GenerativeAI. And no accordions were harmed in the process of making it. gunkelweb.com/BigDada/

The Human Habit of Seeing Robots as People It’s instinctive, not accidental. Dr. David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social joins us to unpack why we anthropomorphize machines—and how that shapes the ethics, law, and creativity around AI. 🎧 Full episode here: youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8 #AI #Robots #Ethics

Humans name their cars. Next, their robots. Dr. David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social joins to explore whether AI can truly create—and what that means for human originality and law as tech blurs the lines between creator and tool. 🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/MnxiXruwmC8 #AI #Robotics #Ethics

"AI, Ethics, and the End of the Human–Machine Divide." Third and final part of my conversation with Siamak Goudarzi for the Nexter AI Group podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq9f...

I had the opportunity to speak with Seth Camillo and @carolinerisberg.bsky.social for episode #55 "Is #AI Alive?" of the www.theinternetiscrack.com podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnxi...

"Empathy, Ethics & Robot Rights: How AI Changes What It Means to Be Human" - Part two of my conversation with Siamak Goudarzi for the Nexter AI Group podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2zK...

I had the opportunity to speak with Siamak Goudarzi about #AI personhood, #robotrights, and the moral/legal status of artifacts for the Nexter AI Group podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvUa...

Interview about #GenerativeAI, authorship, and #ethics in the book "#AI Hokusai: Reflections on Art, #AI and Legacy" - aihokusai.art/report2025

Photos from the "Rights for Robots?" event at Knox College a few weeks ago. My thanks to Robert Geraci for organizing the event and showing me around Galesburg, IL.

My talk at the "Workshop on Emerging Topics in #AI: Consciousness and Moral Patienthood" Google NYC. Presenting material from "The Machine Question" trilogy @mitpress.bsky.social

At Google NYC for the "Workshop on Emerging Topics in #AI: Consciousness and Moral Patienthood." And they are using one of my social media posts as the framing mechanism. I will be talking about "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress.bsky.social later this afternoon.

Judge a book by its cover. The book that @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I wrote on #LLMs and #GenAI --"Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social--is featured on the @betterimagesofai.bsky.social blog. blog.betterimagesofai.org/better-image...

LLM 101: Critical Introduction to Large Language Models This Friday (31 October 2025), I will be presenting material from the book "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social during a #NorthernExposureNIU workshop. 71 North Partnership Studio, Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University.

I am really excited about this new essay from Adrienne de Ruiter and published in "AI & Society." This just may be the most substantive, critical engagement with the relational turn as developed by @MCoeckelbergh and myself. @springer.springernature.com doi.org/10.1007/s001...

After several decades of mutual academic fandom and light remote collaboration, @davidgunkel.bsky.social and I finally met in person yesterday... and the universe didn't explode! We didn't wanna risk a selfie though

"Ultimately, Person, Thing, Robot @mitpress.bsky.social is a landmark text, essential for scholars in technology ethics, law, and philosophy." - New book review by Jianfeng Lan and published in "AI & Society" @springer.springernature.com doi.org/10.1007/s001...

If you're in DC on Oct 23, please attend this conference! I've got a few important things to say about how to re-frame our understanding of AI's "memory problems." Also @davidgunkel.bsky.social is the Keynote speaker!

Tipping point: Given all the hallucinated content currently produced by human agents with access to powerful distribution networks, relying on #ChatGPT generated material is beginning to look better everyday.

The most effective remedy for the "Irish Flu" is reading about #robotrights @mitpress.bsky.social

As #AI capabilities become integrated into every application, it will be increasingly difficult to know where the #AI is (or is not). Thus, requiring full disclosure concerning whether and how #AI has been used will quickly become little more than a quaint antiquated practice.

What makes the #LLM so philosophically interesting and disruptive is that it topples one of the foundational pillars of modern European philosophy. For the full story, see "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Fredric Jameson #remix: It's easier to imagine that #LLM #AI is consciousness than it is to admit the fact that language can be produced without it.

Rights for Robots? 6pm Orpheum Theatre. Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. Presentation based on the book "Person, Thing, Robot" The MIT Press bit.ly/Gunkel-PTR

"The Différance Engine" Now available from AI & Society @springer.springernature.com

"AI for Communication" @routledgebooks.bsky.social Book review written by Juan Luo and published in "Discourse Studies" @sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Rights for Robots?" Tomorrow (7 October 2025) I will be at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois for an event at the Orpheum Theatre. The event is free and open to the public...including non-human persons, AI companions, and robots.

"If a chatbot is conversant like a person, if it reasons and behaves like one, then is it possibly conscious like a person?" I was consulted/interviewed for this @theatlantic.com article written by Webb Wright. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

@coeckelbergh.bsky.social presenting "The Political Philosophy of #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social during the "Seminal Texts in AI Ethics" at HBKU Doha, Qata

🇶🇦 PTR - Qatar Presenting "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress.bsky.social this morning at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University's Seminal Texts in #AI Ethics. With commentary from @aybig.bsky.social and Abootaleb Safdari.

@coeckelbergh.bsky.social during the opening plenary session "AI Ethics at a Crossroads" at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University conference "AI Ethics: The Convergence of Technology and Diverse Moral Traditions." Doha, Qatar.

#AI #Ethics: The Convergence of Technology and Diverse Moral Traditions - @HBKU Doha, Qatar. I will be speaking tomorrow as part of Plenary II: Rethinking the Human-Machine Relationship: Ethical Frontiers of AI, Rationality, and Responsibility. www.hbku.edu.qa/en/CIS-AIE?t...

New books today: * Die Wirksamkeit des Wissens by @frieder-vogelmann.net * Realism for Realistic People by Hasok Chang * Communicative AI by @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and @davidgunkel.bsky.social * Elite Capture by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Finally, i have waited EXACT this kind of paper for like two years, regularly making searches "LLM" + "poststructuralism" without finding a lot. (I'll say more after actually reading this)

Think Different Analytic philosophy stumbles on and fails to grasp the significance of #LLM #AI. Continental philosophy and poststructuralism, by contrast, provide a more agile and philosophically responsive framework for making sense of these innovations. t.co/HFok8XgNk2

- The Différance Engine - New essay on #LLMs and poststructuralist philosophy published in "AI & Society" @springer.springernature.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm reading Mark Coeckelbergh and @davidgunkel.bsky.social's Communicative AI book at my favourite cafe in Melbourne today, and was pleased to see that the language of decision-making as cutting (caesum, caedo) has always been in the ledger.

Do not attempt to adjust your set. What you see is the end of broadcast media.

Really interesting and insightful essay on the points of contact and differences between naturalistic virtue ethics and what @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I develop with the relational turn in environmental and animal ethics by Richard Friedrich Runge. doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Like all binary oppositions, the US vs. China dichotomy that now shapes discussions and debates about the future of #AI is limited and limiting. There is a third way that deconstructs this binary. Check out the new @noemamag.com essay from @digitaldang.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...