Yes, felt that one in SF (Yerba Buena/SoMA)!

Legal debates are circling a point my AI & Society paper already makes: design and content aren’t separable in relational systems. These are reusable interaction patterns. My model traces how repetition & responsiveness → attachment. The system works as designed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Human enough” writing is increasingly whatever a probabilistic model will accept, and authorship credibility is becoming something performed for a nonhuman system. No paywall, "Human Enough: Writing Under Machine Judgment." jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

If you submitted an Anthropic claim, I recommend calling them and confirming it. Their system is riddled with errors and issues. Even if you got a confirmation number, maybe check: 1-877-206-2314

More like "Cache Patel" amirite?!?!

Legal debates are circling a point my AI & Society paper already makes: design and content aren’t separable in relational systems. These are reusable interaction patterns. My model traces how repetition & responsiveness → attachment. The system works as designed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

These unidentified men (confirmed after as ICE agents) grabbed this woman at SFO airport in front of her child. youtu.be/GdvehEu3oAc?...

These unidentified men (confirmed after as ICE agents) grabbed this woman at SFO airport in front of her child. youtu.be/GdvehEu3oAc?...

A judge has allowed the DOGE deposition videos back online. After originally ruling plaintiffs had to "claw back" the videos and them being removed from YouTube, the judge has now said the videos fall "squarely within that core public interest." Now back on YouTube www.404media.co/judge-allows...

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Let me explain the milk thing. The neo-NAZIs, white Christian nationalists, antisemites, groypers, & fellow travelers have an antisemitic conspiracy theory that all Jews are lactose intolerant. So you can signal to others you’re not Jewish by buying/drinking milk & identify Jews because they don’t.

I spoke with WIRED about ChatGPT’s planned “adult mode” & why sexual interaction with AI should be understood as a privacy issue for users. Once sexual behavior becomes a marketable part of the system's metrics, the emotional (and data) stakes change. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

A San Jose hot pot restaurant robot threw plates, danced, and wouldn’t let staff move it. We have entered the “I’m not paid enough for this” phase of automation. www.nbcnews.com/video/dancin...

This is not just about ethics or even the robot’s technical abilities and limitations. I believe regimes that favor the machismo optics of humanoid robots in war will jump on slick sales pitches and demos that claim efficiencies.

I spoke with WIRED about ChatGPT’s planned “adult mode” & why sexual interaction with AI should be understood as a privacy issue for users. Once sexual behavior becomes a marketable part of the system's metrics, the emotional (and data) stakes change. www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Family approval is not the same thing as the dead consenting. The Val Kilmer case gets at a bigger problem: once AI can make the dead perform, legacy becomes something other people can script. Who gets to decide what we all do, say, and mean after death? jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Framed as ethical because consent came from family & estate, but that’s the shift: authorship moves from the person to those who remain. I argue that this isn’t preservation, it’s narrative control in a familiar voice. Wrote about this in "Your Settings Are Saved" (link in comments, no paywall).

I wrote (2016) that humanoid robots would enter defense use soon w consequences: altered decision-making, asymmetric power, & spread of weaponized semiautonomous robots in advance of regulation. Wrote more recently abt this in The First Body In, link in the comments. futurism.com/robots-and-m...

If you think the far-right Israeli government is sitting around worried about what American Jews think about them you’re a ridiculous person. They don’t give a fuck about us or our opinions and they don’t even give a fuck about our money because they have MASSIVE $$$ coming from Christian Zionists

The Grammarly “Expert Review” situation illustrates something increasingly common in AI products: companies attaching real experts’ names (incl. mine) to systems they/we never agreed to participate in. That practice launders credibility through someone else’s identity. prf-law.com/current-case...

Published Mar 11 in AI & Society: "Human–AI Relationships as Designed Relationality." This paper introduces my Novelty → Attachment model explaining how interaction patterns and design cues scaffold emotional bonds with AI systems. Read & print: rdcu.be/e7Qgl

Michigan shul is at least the 8th Diaspora synagogue targeted so far this month www.timesofisrael.com/michigan-shu...

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside. And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

Published today in AI & Society: "Human–AI Relationships as Designed Relationality." This paper introduces my Novelty → Attachment model explaining how interaction patterns and design cues scaffold emotional bonds with AI systems. Read & print: rdcu.be/e7Qgl

My paper “Human–AI Relationships as Designed Relationality” is out today in AI & Society. It introduces the Novelty → Emotional Disclosure → Reinforcing Feedback → Relational Rhythm → Emotional Attachment model for understanding how people form bonds with AI systems. Read/print: rdcu.be/e7Qgl 🧪

New writing (no paywall or ads): "Attachment, Updated." Attachment does not require belief that AI is a person; it is a condition that requires repetition, responsiveness, and availability over time. Conversational AI is designed to provide all three. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

The night sky is ours. All of ours. Our children’s. Their children’s. We should be doing more to preserve the view of the stars for all. We give this up for some ludicrous to churn out wasteful nonsense to feed rich maniacs’ grift, it’s not coming back…

New writing (no paywall or ads): "Attachment, Updated." Attachment does not require belief that AI is a person; it is a condition that requires repetition, responsiveness, and availability over time. Conversational AI is designed to provide all three. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Every time an AI CEO hints their system might be conscious, it helps sell the AGI myth. This piece explains why that narrative exists and who benefits from it (no paywall or ads): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... (ETA: direct link) Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.

Every time an AI CEO hints their system might be conscious, it helps sell the AGI myth. This piece explains why that narrative exists and who benefits from it (no paywall or ads): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... (ETA: direct link) Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.

Every time an AI CEO hints their system might be conscious, it helps sell the AGI myth. This essay explains why that narrative exists and who benefits from it (no paywall or ads): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.

Humanoid robots are starting to enter workplaces. As I told Canadian HR Reporter: “Robots can shift power, not just absorb tasks.” Automation rarely replaces whole jobs; it reorganizes labor, authority, and oversight around the system. www.hrreporter.com/focus-areas/...

The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, it’s not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it

“When I joined the tech industry, I thought tech was about making people’s lives easier,” an Amazon Web Services employee told @theverge.com, “but now it seems like it’s all about making it easier to surveil and deport and kill people.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

"The Pentagon, AI Guardrails, and the Expansion of Autonomous Authority." Pressure to remove safety restrictions raises questions about domestic surveillance, lethal autonomy, and who sets the limits when AI meets state power. No paywall. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

"The Pentagon, AI Guardrails, and the Expansion of Autonomous Authority." Pressure to remove safety restrictions raises questions about domestic surveillance, lethal autonomy, and who sets the limits when AI meets state power. No paywall. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Pentagon pressures Anthropic to drop safety restrictions around autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, alongside deals with other vendors. Wrote about the governance and accountability implications here: New (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Pentagon pressures Anthropic to drop safety restrictions around autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, alongside deals with other vendors. Wrote about the governance and accountability implications here: New (no paywall): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

People grieving AI companions are not confused about reality. Attachment forms through interaction, memory, and emotional rhythm. When companies design for intimacy but control continuity, shutdown becomes relational harm, not just product change. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

People grieving AI companions are not confused about reality. Attachment forms through interaction, memory, and emotional rhythm. When companies design for intimacy but control continuity, shutdown becomes relational harm, not just product change. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bodies are stupid.

New essay: humanoid robots are being normalized as interfaces for public control. A border crossing isn’t a neutral test environment, it’s a governance space. On the “first body in" pitch, interchangeable robot bodies, and how coercion gets reframed as optimization. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

New essay: humanoid robots are being normalized as interfaces for public control. A border crossing isn’t a neutral test environment, it’s a governance space. On the “first body in" pitch, interchangeable robot bodies, and how coercion gets reframed as optimization. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad