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David J. Gunkel
David J. Gunkel is a professor at Northern Illinois University and author of The Machine Question and Person-Thing-Robot.
American academic and Presidential Teaching Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University. His research and publications examine the philosophical assumptions and ethical consequences of ICT.

American academic and Presidential Teaching Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University. His research and publications examine the philosophical assumptions and ethical consequences of ICT.
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Tipping points and the Earth's system

Human history in the age of the Anthropocene

Could blockchain end big tech?
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The dangers of Zuckerberg's metaverse

The new science of extreme weather

AI is turning us into machines

Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong

How technology will revolutionise relationships

We should all be worried about synthetic data

Google's AI is not sentient. Not even slightly

The AI containment problem

Technological determinism is wrong

The dangers of science behind closed doors

Why electric cars are a mistake

Why we have the future of AI wrong

Why AI must learn to forget

All-knowing machines are a fantasy

AI may need sleep too

The lunacy of 'machine consciousness'

'Machine consciousness' is not lunacy

The end of astronauts

Machine Life

Google, Amazon and Plato’s Cave

The culture of bees and the AI apocalypse

AI and the end of reason

Controlling the threats from AI

AI, Moloch, and the race to the bottom

Stem cells: the hype and the dangerous reality

Ancient traits in modern life