Julie Carpenter, PhD

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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):
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Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.

Humanoid robots roll into work, raising new questions for HR With companies such as Toyota Canada trying out the new tech, what’s the impact on workers? Researchers call for transparency, consultation

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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U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

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

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots Employees at some companies with defense contracts feel betrayed.

“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...

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research? Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

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...

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.

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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.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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.

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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...

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

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.

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

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...

Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people in the military, with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting VIP’s and state dig...

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

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

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...

Bodies are stupid.

The text reads: The First Body In Humanoid robots as mediated danger and scalable labor: what changes when a human-shaped machine goes first. The image is a row of humanlike lego robots holding weapons.

New essay: humanoid robots are being normalized as interfaces for public control. A border crossing isn’t a neutral test environment, it’s a governance space.

On the “first body in" pitch, interchangeable robot bodies, and how coercion gets reframed as optimization. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin.
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The text reads: The First Body In Humanoid robots as mediated danger and scalable labor: what changes when a human-shaped machine goes first. The image is a row of humanlike lego robots holding weapons.

New essay: humanoid robots are being normalized as interfaces for public control. A border crossing isn’t a neutral test environment, it’s a governance space.

On the “first body in" pitch, interchangeable robot bodies, and how coercion gets reframed as optimization. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...