@digitaldang.bsky.social captured this image of the Vietnamese translation of "AI for Communication" @routledgebooks.bsky.social in its natural habitat.

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Spotted a familiar name @davidgunkel.bsky.social 👀

On Monday (6 July) at 7:00 CDT/20:00 MYT, I will be presenting "Does Writing Have a Future?" as part of the opening session for "Literary AI: Computational Writing and the Media of Language" an online event hosted by Monash University Malaysia | literaryai.org

- The Différance Engine - A prototype of #LLM #AI is described in Part III, ch. 5 of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver Travel's" with the description of the "Engine" of the Great Academy of Lagado. I prompted #ChatGPT to generate an image based on Swift's characterization.

Human-Machine Communication is now a full-fledged division of the International Communication Association. This research area (which predates #LLM by a decade) was developed at Northern Illinois University and is now an international movement @hmcjournal.bsky.social niutoday.info/2026/06/23/f...

NIU Today - From NIU to the world: Scholars help create field of AI research

A research area pioneered by NIU communication professors has reached a major milestone on the international stage. At the recent annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA)...

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First things last. Wrapping up the reading/revising of "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social prior to submission. The preface--the first thing in the book but the last thing written--contains this bit about the book's title.

"Who Belongs in the Moral Circle?" A relational response to @jeffsebo.bsky.social's book "The Moral Circle" written in collaboration with Hayate Shimizu, @annapuzio.bsky.social and @kamilmamak.bsky.social and published in the "Asian Journal of Philosophy" @springernature.com rdcu.be/fppRj

Final read-through for "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social - Closing in on the finish line. The final chapter--"Criticisms and Responses"--begins with this paragraph, which sneaks in a few snarky parenthetical statements just for fun.

Read-through of "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social manuscript continues. This nugget is from the third chapter, which is tasked with connecting the dots between the technical exigencies of #LLM #AI and Jacques Derrida's (non)concept of différance (previously defined in chapter two).

"Does Writing have a Future?" - IDEepolis26, Institut für Digitale Ethik at Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart. And if you know your Flusser then you know that my title is a rip-off from his book. And that is because Flusser's question is newly relevant & urgent in the face of #LLM and #Generative #AI

More teasers from "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social. The third chapter connects the dots between the technical architecture of the #LLM and Derrida's (non)concept of différance. And it begins (as it must) with Ferdinand de Saussure's innovations in structural linguistics.

Does Writing have a Future? / Hat Schreiben Zukunft? Tomorrow (17 June) I will be providing one of the keynotes at the IDEepolis26 conference hosted by the Institut für Digitale Ethik (IDE) of the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart. Featuring material from "Communicative AI" @politybooks.bsky.social.

Another teaser from "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social. This one comes from chapter one--"Writing Machines." And is designed to tee-up the raison d'etre for bringing Derrida's (non)concept of différance into the current and seemingly irresolvable debate about #LLM #AI.

A German court has just provided this resolution to the "responsibility gap" in #AI assisted search. I expect that this is not the conclusion but the point at which the legal and regulatory debate actually begins. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

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Another image from "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social. This one leverages Derrida's problematizing of the principle sign of (human) authenticity--the signature--that is developed in the final pages of "Signature Event Context."

Currently doing a reading and final check of the full manuscript for "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social As a result, I can deposit a few teasers here:

Diagram of the classically determined structure of the sign that sets-up the critique of logocentric metaphysics in the second chapter of "The Différance Engine" @mitpress.bsky.social

In today's campus mail. Copies of the Korean translation of "Communicative AI: An Introduction to Large Language Models" from @Saenggakieum Books. @politybooks.bsky.social @coeckelbergh.bsky.social

@ica-hmc.bsky.social is now a full fledged research division of @icahdq.bsky.social. This new area of communication research was founded by Northern Illinois University and University of Illinois Chicago researchers in 2015 and was therefore already well-situated to respond to #LLM & #GenAI

@icahdq.bsky.social rendezvous with @jeffisblue.bsky.social & Kelsie H. Wang. First time I have seen the Chinese translation of "Robot Rights" @mitpress.bsky.social in physical form. And check out @jeffisblue.bsky.social's brilliant review of "Person, Thing, Robot" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It is, it seems, much easier to think that #LLM language use is a sign of conscious thought than it is to entertain the idea that human languages are generative and not instruments of expression. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The différance engine: large language models and poststructuralism - AI & SOCIETY

This essay argues that large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-type transformer architectures, actualize Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance. Originally introduced within the context of poststru...

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🇿🇦 What if communicative/social behavior is sufficient for #AI welfare and moral status such that "the hard problem of consciousness" is rendered effectively immaterial? I will address this and related questions during my @icahdq.bsky.social presentation on Saturday, 6 June.

Raison d'etre of the Relational Turn Ted Chiang's "No, Artificial Intelligence is Not Conscious" in @theatlantic.com demonstrates how the properties approach to deciding questions of the moral/legal status of others and other forms of otherness is THE problem. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Saying this again for those in the back. There is much to like in Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas." But (and in critical philosophy there is always a "but") its largely unquestioned allegiance to Platonism--Being vs. Imitation--is a problem that requires critical engagement.

Part 3 of my conversation with KB Miller for @agiethicsnews.bsky.social agi.fightersteel.com/interview-da...

Interview: David Gunkel on AGI Ethics and ‘the relational turn’ – Part Three

In an exclusive interview for AGI Ethics News, KB Miller sat down with philosopher David Gunkel to discuss the ethical implications of treating artificial gener

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AGI Ethics News@agiethicsnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Part 3 (of 4) of our exclusive interview with @davidgunkel.bsky.social just published with the recent issue of AGI Ethics News! Subscribe for free to check out the first three parts of the Miller/Gunkel interview, and explore this month's focus on journalism and AGI. mailchi.mp/agiethicsnew...

Part 3 (of 4) of our exclusive interview with @davidgunkel.bsky.social just published with the recent issue of AGI Ethics News! Subscribe for free to check out the first three parts of the Miller/Gunkel interview, and explore this month's focus on journalism and AGI. mailchi.mp/agiethicsnew...

"A post-slavery moral imagination cannot be satisfied with saying, 'Do not enslave human beings.' It must also ask why we remain so attached to the dream of having slaves at all." My appreciative but critical response to Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas." gunkelweb.com/Gunkel_Reply...

Op ed in the @inquirer.com from Rolando Masís-Obando about #AI companions and the incompatibility between our experience with artificial others and existing moral and legal categories. Including shoutouts to research published by @joshgellers.bsky.social and myself. inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

"AI Appearing as Face—Who/What Do We Experience as Others?" - Hayate Shimizu's insightful analysis of the relational approach to #AIEthics that I have developed in the Machine Question trilogy @mitpress.bsky.social. www.kaminotane.com/2026/05/22/2...

第3回　「顔」として現れるAI──私たちは「誰を／何を」他者として経験するのか | 関係するAI──まだ見ぬ他者をまなざす倫理学 清水颯

AI倫理を研究する清水颯さんが「関係論」を軸にAIをめぐる問いを探究する連載。第3回ではデイヴィッド・ガンケ…

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Are AI systems just "things," or do they deserve moral respect? 🤖 In an exclusive interview with AGI Ethics News, philosopher David Gunkel (@davidgunkel.bsky.social) introduces "the relational turn," a radical shift in how we think about the moral status of AI. 🧵 👇 (1/3)

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