Way back in 2020 I published a piece referring to GPT-3 as a 'statistical parrot'. A few months later, that 'stochastic parrots' paper came out, and now that's how everyone talks about it. I hope to one day live on as a footnote in some grad student's AI history dissertation.

📢📢📢Vital work from AI Now Institute finding the substance behind the hype, yet again. Critical reading for anyone who's waved their hands while calling for an "FDA for AI". Here's what that means IRL, where it could work, and the ways it would likely fail w/o big changes.👇

New paper where Mel Andrews, Where the Tweets have no name, and I outline how machine learning is laundering long discredited harmful pseudoscience and offer resources for research best practices to developers/practitioners cell.com/patterns/fullt…

There has been a lot of speculation and moralizing about #AI companions but little empirical data about the actual impact on users. Fortunately Jaime Banks has begun doing that work. New essay in "Journal of Social and Personal Relationships" Sage Journals doi.org/10.1177/026540…

Yesterday's #Robophilosophy2024 Workshop 10: Robot Rights - From Theory to Practice was a blast! We absolutely nailed it and had a great time. David J. Gunkel autumn edwards Kamil Mamak

Best part of the #robotrights workshop at Robophilosophy Conference is that we not only had brilliant contributions from Aybike Tunç autumn edwards Kamil Mamak and Kęstutis Mosakas but also really inspired questions and comments from eripsa (professional robot) Chris Chesher Anna Strasser DenkWerkstatt Berlin et al.

📢📢Recently we shared a box folder of RESOURCES FOR TEACHING CRITICAL LITERACIES. Today we add this STUDENT GUIDE which you can download: rutgers.app.box.com/file/163838876… We are also updating our living document docs.google.com/document/d/1TA… Please circulate and feel free to comment!