@jgcarpenter.com
Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, & attachment. Author: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." jgcarpenter.com
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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…
A woman sitting in a chair, possibly in a cafe, engrossed in her phone.
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.
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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.
Meeping for second breakfast!
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...
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"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.
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Yes, sorry! To be clear, the square in square were what we always had. I don’t remember ever seeing the rectangle ones.
Fwiw, he had a Canon model SLR that he used, I don’t remember which one. He got film developed at a camera store (for slides and photos) or did prints at home himself when he had time.
This was how they were! My dad was a photographer and preferred slides. We had boxes of thousands just like that.
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?
An image of an American flag behind a CCTV camera in the foreground. Text reads: 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.
"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...
DRAGON TOES 🦎
An image of an American flag behind a CCTV camera in the foreground. Text reads: 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.
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...
An image of an American flag behind a CCTV camera in the foreground. Text reads: 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.
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.
It’s like looking into the abyss. A blob abyss.
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...
That’s a phenomenon I wrote the book about in 2016. www.routledge.com/Culture-and-...
My research on human AI and human robot attachment shows bonds emerge through interactions over time that reduce uncanniness socially. jgcarpenter.com 2/2
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...
