Professional Raison d'être: I apply the theory and practice of #Deconstruction to emerging technology (#Algorithms, #AI, #robots, etc.), overturning and disrupting the traditional binary oppositions by which we have made sense of our tools and ourselves. mitpress.mit.edu/97802625424…

The Deconstruction of Consiousness. The search for #AI consciousness could learn a thing or two from Nietzsche. For Nietzsche, "consciousness" is not some fundamental, internal capacity of the individual. It is a social/relational concept that originates in communication.

I use an Exquisite Corpse writing exercise to help students understand how next token prediction can produce seemingly coherent sequences of words without understanding or intention. The exercise is included as part of my book "Understanding #AI" @polity tinyurl.com/5eucuxy5

"The Différance Engine: #LLMs and Deconstruction" Concluding keynote address at the "Philosophy of Technology and #AI" @UniBonn desirableai.com/events/philo… Nov 6, 2026 02:00 PM CET uni-bonn.zoom-x.de/j/6428630… Meeting ID: 642 8630 4635 Passcode: 536664

Like others working on #AI moral status, I get a good amount of email from #LLMs (or their "guardians") with this kind of query. And my response is: Read "The Machine Question" @mitpress 2012, which was designed to get out in front of these questions. mitpress.mit.edu/97802620174…

"Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress Keynote address at the @SIUE Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. 16:30 today. siue.edu/artsandsciences/phi…

A Critical History of Robot Rights papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… ✍️ @David_Gunkel via @SSRN 👉 In his SSRN preprint, the author traces the intellectual evolution of machine ethics, charting how the discourse transitioned from speculative legal fiction into a mainstream philosophical debate. 👉 He provides a systematic overview of how researchers have historically applied, deconstructed, and adapted traditional human-centric legal frameworks to accommodate the emerging moral status of autonomous systems. 💡Gunkel establishes that the long history of debating robot rights has never actually been about the machines themselves, but has instead functioned as a mirror exposing the arbitrary and fragile boundaries we use to define human moral exceptionalism. @Corix_JC @TheAIObserverX @maponi @sallyeaves @JagersbergKnut @ahier @ChuckDBrooks @Shi4Tech @CEO_AISOMA @ThEiLe0 @dinisguarda @NeiraOsci @TarakRindani @FrRonconii @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @Khulood_Almani @TysonLester @LouisColumbus @SusanHayes_ @EstelaMandela @JoannMoretti @sulefati7 @rvp @FernandaKellner @pchamard @darioandriani @drsharwood @ALouiseLavalett @Fabriziobustama @amalmerzouk @arlenenewbigg @smaksked @AMontespan @mikeflache @RLDI_Lamy @jenstirrup @Eli_Krumova @PVynckier @chidambara09 @AnneLaureBEAUD2 @sminaev2015 @Analytics_699 @NathaliaLeHen @MHcommunicate @DanielleLargier

"Do you think the shift from intelligence to communication changes how the moral question should be asked, too?" - With this question, the #AI @SentientDawn describes what is at issue with the relational turn in #AI ethics.

OLIVER. #AI Agents are not new. They were already formulated and predicted in J.C.R Licklider and Robert W. Taylor's "The Computer as a Communication Device" (1968). Just one more piece of evidence that #AI is and has always been communication technology. internetat50.com/references/…

Mixed messages - On the one hand, powerful #AI models might be the end of the world as we know it. On the other hand, they can uncover critical vulnerabilities in the PHP2Shell that runs much of the web. wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rc…

Important new essay from @JdA_IntLaw concerning the question of authorship and provenance in academic publishing. His argument tracks what I have developed on this issue with @MCoeckelbergh in "Communicative #AI" @politybooks and with @Hayate_Shimizu. voelkerrechtsblog.org/agains…

The underlying idea organizing the argument developed here proceeds from the assumption that "art is medium of communication"--i.e. a means of transmitting intended content from the mind of a sender to a receiver. But this "transmission theory" is just that. It is a theory.

We know exactly what CONSCIOUSNESS is. It is--similar to the "soul" in scholastic philosophy--an instrument of socio-political power by which those who possess it justify the marginalization, exclusion, and dominion over those "others" who do not.

Waiting in the Frankfurt airport. So there's nothing better to do than to work on the slides for "The Différance Engine" keynote which will be delivered at the "Philosophy of Technology and AI" conference @UniBonn Four outcomes all of which are a GOOD thing.

"Thinking Otherwise" captures close to 20 years of research in #AI, which began by investigating the moral status of other forms of otherness via Emmanuel Levinas (2007) and now concerns thinking differently about #LLM #AI via Jacques Derrida's concept of différance (2025).

Superintelligent Robots Special issue of the journal "Philosophical Studies" @SpringerNature edited by John-Stewart Gordon and myself. With contributions from @joan_lloralb, @KamilMamak, @LeonardDung1, @adriarm_, @rhyssouthan, @jensemler rdcu.be/v8Z8aqWz2tua

As part of my appointment as Mercator Visiting Professor for AI in the Human Context, I will be presenting "The Différance Engine" as the closing keynote at the "Philosophy of Technology and AI" conference. @UniBonn 6 November 2026. desirableai.com/events/philo…