"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...

In "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I talk about the environmental costs of #LLM #AI data centers, esp. their dependency on H2O. But for a more entertaining version of that argument, see Charlie Barens for the Manitowoc Minute. www.youtube.com/shorts/ez7YV...

South Korea grants robots the rights of pedestrians. How is that possible? And what does mean? Answers these and other "robot rights" questions can be found here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Since the publication of my 2018 book "Robot Rights" @mitpress.bsky.social this is precisely what I have argued would be the actually trajectory that would lead to robot rights. #AI #welfare is just getting off the ground, but #robotrights is already a legal reality. intimedia.id/read/south-k...

"Large Language Models" New pre-print of a chapter from the in-process book "Understanding AI: A Critical Intro for the Humanities and Social Sciences" @politybooks.bsky.social Available from @ssrn.bsky.social ssrn.com/abstract=540... Comments and feedback very much welcomed.

FLOTUS, those of us working in #AIEthics have been getting ready for this moment for decades. Please give us a call if you would like to do something about it. Operators (actually #LLM powered chatbots) are standing by. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Some readers of “Prompted by me. Generated by ChatGPT” (recently published in "Human Machine Communication") have reported unpleasant intellectual sensations. To help alleviate this problem, my team and I offer the following helpful warnings. stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/vol10/is...

"Prompted by Me. Generated by ChatGPT" New essay published #OpenAccess in Human Machine Communication - stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/vol10/is... With commentary from Autumn Edwards and Katrin Etzrodt.

Excellent advice from Leif Weatherby. And pretty much what Mark Coeckelbergh and I also argue in "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social uk.news.yahoo.com/advice-sam-a...

"The Machine Question" @mitpress.bsky.social 2012 is not only one of the first published books to take seriously the question of #AI #welfare and machine moral status, but it also put that thinking into action by way of the final paragraph of the acknowledgments:

Saying that #LLMs do not understand the meaning of the words they spit out is not a remarkable critical insight; it's a simple description. #LLMs use human language WITHOUT understanding. And if you want to understand what that means, we got it covered: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Relying on "suffering" as the benchmark for #AI welfare (which has a rather intuitive appeal) is complicated by theoretical problems that remain unaddressed. Here is how I have explained it in the book "Robot Rights" @mitpress.bsky.social by way of Daniel Dennett's 1978 essay on the subject.

It is (for those living and working in North America) that syllabus-making time of the year. And since we are all in this #LLM/#GenAI mess together, it is also a good opportunity to share course #AI Policies. Here's mine:

"It's the Capitalism, Stupid!" New composition for the Big Dada Project album "Weird AI"--all #AI generated accordion songs about generative #AI. gunkelweb.com/BigDada youtu.be/Yi59WqvtwN8

A CAPTCHA for Western Ethics.

What's better than a new book review? A new post about "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social like this one from @mkmayhall.bsky.social

#AI Chatbots & Privacy The ToS/EULA is entirely inadequate for protecting user privacy. A better way is to give the #AI or #robot a right of privacy. See Alain & Jérémy Bensoussan's "Droit des Robots" (2015) and my own "Robot Rights" @mitpress.bsky.social (2018). mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551571/

"How to Make a #GenAI Poem"

"Dziwna Maszyna" New composition (in Polish) for the Big Dada Project "Weird #AI" album. gunkelweb.com/BigDada youtu.be/g1AUWc6ZIQo

--Is #AI a Person or a Thing...or Neither?-- My conversation with Reid Blackman for the "Ethical Machines" podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyqy...

"Robot Rights" @mitpress.bsky.social is now available in Persian translation due to the efforts of Reza Farajpour linkedin.com/in/dr-reza-farajpour-1726772b9 and published by www.majdlaw.ir

"Death of the Author" New accordion-driven #GenAI composition from the Big Dada Project album Weird #AI. gunkelweb.com/BigDada This one was prompted by the "I'm Sorry...This New Artist Completely Sucks" from Rick Beato. Song title obviously borrowed from Roland Barthes. youtu.be/3KhWqeWbMuE

Academics rarely (if ever) get "fan mail." So I was both surprised and thrilled by this email from yesterday concerning the @noemamag.com essay on #LLMs and the "Death of the Author." noemamag.com/ai-signals-t...

Action shot of my "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress.bsky.social keynote at the "Legal Distinctions Between Persons and Things" conference @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 With thanks to @evabernetkempers.bsky.social for organizing a brilliant event and for the the image.

TOLD YOU SO moment (see "The Machine Question" @mitpress.bsky.social 2012) - The European Commission's "Safety and Security" chapter of the "General-Purpose AI Code of Practice" includes a "non-human welfare" clause. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

PTR 🇧🇪 keynote at the Legal Distinctions between Persons and Things conference @uantwerpen.be @mitpress.bsky.social

@evabernetkempers.bsky.social getting things started at the "Legal Distinction Between Persons and Things" conference @uantwerpen.be

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=486...

PTR 🇧🇪 - On Monday 7 July I will be presenting "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress.bsky.social as one of the keynotes during the "Legal Distinctions Between Persons and Things" conference at @uantwerpen.be Looking forward to seeing @dianamocanum.bsky.social @aybig.bsky.social & @visakurki.bsky.social

TODAY (4 July 2025) Book Launch - "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social 16:00 - University of Vienna. Erika-Weinzierl-Saal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Who needs a tower with your Family's name on it? We got a tischdecke store in Vienna. So there!

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. @routledgebooks.bsky.social youtu.be/B877Fgc795s

In "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social, @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I identify 2 ways to respond to the crisis of authorship with #LLM #AI: 1) put the author function on life support or 2) pull the plug & give up the ghost. We opt for the latter; @floridi.bsky.social goes with the former.

Two of my favorite ideas from SPT last week. I’m still processing: - @shannonvallor.bsky.social: intimacy as openness, current tech as closure of imaginaries. - @davidgunkel.bsky.social: the author we invented is dead, yes. But we’ll come up with something new.

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" @mitpress.bsky.social, robots are non-binary and "a queer sort of thing." Robot Liberation!

UPDATE - AI Welfare/Robot Rights Concept Map New publication from Hayate Shimizu in "AI & Ethics" @springernature.com "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.