I will be a panelist on the upcoming "Code, Command, and Consequences: Ethics in the Age of Autonomous Weapons." I researched & wrote the book "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." Register: events.scu.edu/ethics/event/ethics-age-autonomous-weapons

A playlist for y'all featuring some of my various interviews on AI, emotional attachment, ethics, and human-technology relationships. open.spotify.com/playlist/47A...

Russia has a rich history of similar robot "innovations" that were definitely ready for public rollout when launched. youtu.be/P_CDu1hYXxk?...

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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Russia has a rich history of similar robot "innovations" that were definitely ready for public rollout when launched. youtu.be/P_CDu1hYXxk?...

“They use emotional mirroring and personalization, which adapts to your speech patterns, tone, and mood. It reinforces that illusion of a human-like exchange.” I was interviewed about Grok's Ani and Valentine sexually charged chatbots in the NY Post: nypost.com/2025/11/04/l...

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Tired of being unemployed when my work is what companies say they need: making complex systems clear, usable. I’ve spent years designing human-centered research & translating user insights into decisions that make products and experiences better. DM #UX research leads! jgcarpenter.com #AI #HCI #HRI

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Tired of being unemployed when my work is what companies say they need: making complex systems clear, usable. I’ve spent years designing human-centered research & translating user insights into decisions that make products and experiences better. DM #UX research leads! jgcarpenter.com #AI #HCI #HRI

I’ll be part of a Webinar panel at Santa Clara University on November 18, discussing the ethics of autonomous weapons and accountability in warfare. The event is free and open to the public. Benson Center, Williman Room and available on livestream (register at link). events.scu.edu/ethics/event...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

A playlist for y'all featuring some of my various interviews on AI, emotional attachment, ethics, and human-technology relationships. open.spotify.com/playlist/47A...

This research we did in 2009 is still some of my most cited, "Gender representation and humanoid robots designed for domestic use." Link at end. One study participant said of Repliee (a robot with "female" gender cues), “Well, it’s female, so that’s a positive...." (quote continued in thread) 1/*

I wrote a book, "The Naked Android," about why robots keep getting gendered, by design or “by accident," and how that shapes trust & ideas of what kind of labor or use we imagine they’re for. Form, like voice/language and context of use, sets expectations. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

Set it to “hide and seek” mode. It scoots under your bed, LED pinpoint pupils giving it away in the dark. “I give up!” you shout. It crabwalks from under your bed, dusty but victorious, logging your defeat for calibration, emotional tone for training, and household sentiment for targeted ads. :D

I’ll be part of a Webinar panel at Santa Clara University on November 18, discussing the ethics of autonomous weapons and accountability in warfare. The event is free and open to the public. Benson Center, Williman Room and available on livestream (register at link). events.scu.edu/ethics/event...

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties. Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan. Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

I just spelled "kafkaesque" as "latkaesque" and now I want latkes

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

I wrote about this in (no paywall) an essay on the illusions of support in systems that monetize mimicking humanlike care & understanding, & the dangers of it feeding delusion & biases w/out oversight, accountability, or true comprehension of human experience. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

Ludo, caught mid-existential crisis and between naps. He believes that meaning is a human construct. #Caturday, however, is real.

Reminder that I do have a new book out this year! "The Naked Android" is based on ethnographic research and interviews with people designing, living with, and envisioning robots. It examines the shifting boundaries of identity and agency in human–AI relationships. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

I work in in human-AI and robot research. The word "robot" is from Čapek's sci-fi play "R.U.R." about a factory that mass-produces artificial workers & raises questions abt creation, labor, & what it means to be human. And this guy thinks I got here without being a lifelong fan of science fiction.

No paywall and no ads. My various blog posts on AI, AGI, bias, intimacy, connection, gender, trust, surveillance, and the systems that are quietly shaping daily life. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html

Reminder that I do have a new book out this year! "The Naked Android" is based on ethnographic research and interviews with people designing, living with, and envisioning robots. It examines the shifting boundaries of identity and agency in human–AI relationships. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

Things I said: "It could risk sending messages either to the public or to their employees that there is a lack of accountability at the very top. It’s...widening that gap between executive privilege, technical privilege, and the precarity of laborers." futurism.com/ceos-ai-clon...

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include: -Amazon -Apple -Coinbase -Lockheed Martin -Google -Meta -Microsoft -Palantir -Tobacco companies -The Adelson family Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.

In WIRED, I talk about how AI systems designed for “adult” expression force a reckoning with privacy, safety, and the commodification of intimacy. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Hello! 20+ years experience in UXR across industry/ academia & seeking new research & speaking opportunities! W: jgcarpenter.com & ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-75.... SME in how relationships are shaped, connected, negotiated, & expressed through our interactions with different forms of AI.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Hello! 20+ years experience in UXR across industry/ academia & seeking new research & speaking opportunities! W: jgcarpenter.com & ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-75.... SME in how relationships are shaped, connected, negotiated, & expressed through our interactions with different forms of AI.

No paywall and no ads. My various blog posts on AI, AGI, bias, intimacy, connection, gender, trust, surveillance, and the systems that are quietly shaping daily life. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

company that surveils people without their knowledge or consent makes glasses you're not gonna believe this, but the glasses surveil people without their knowledge or consent

In WIRED, I talk about how AI systems designed for “adult” expression force a reckoning with privacy, safety, and the commodification of intimacy. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust. That symbol on his cap is the totenkopf. This isn't just a nazi symbol, it was the symbol of SS guards who mass murdered millions. Just to be clear, no one who gets this as a tattoo should ever be elected.

White men facing consequences for their actions isn't purity testing when everyone else faces consequences for crimes they're not even committing.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

If I could raise a golem today, I would. Worth it.

Hi, hello! This is not a “clone.” It’s a custom robotic doll. Just wrote a book that includes a history of robots made in the image of self, significant other, & celebrity. Interviews with people who made the robots and those live with them. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

I work in the tech industry, specifically human-AI interaction. The personal data they collect from you is worth more than your out-of-pocket expense for that "smart" mattress, home assistant, security camera, dishwasher, etc.

New essay, "The Default Body" jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... "For anyone who has ever been told that a symptom 'isn’t serious,' the prospect of being judged by an even colder arbiter carries a familiar sting. Artificial intelligence doesn’t need to harbor prejudice; it only needs to inherit it.""

If you don’t understand American Jews have fuckall to do with Israeli policy, you are the antisemite.

Me: imagine yourself in the shoes of a Jewish person watching y’all justifying a man with a Nazi tattoo Jew-hating Antisemites who think all Jews are a monolith:

I need y’all to take five seconds and think about what it feels like to be a Jew whose family was massacred by people wearing this symbol and watch you analyze and debate this.