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Researcher of people and technology. AI & attachment. UXR. Golems. Robots. Cat pics. New book, “The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze.” jgcarpenter.com
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Quoted in Axios re 2wai’s HoloAvatars, AI versions of you, built in minutes. The tech claims authenticity, but LLMs hallucinate. These avatars don’t speak for you, they simulate, & that distinction matters. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/c...

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I was interviewed for this Axios piece on AI-generated CEO digital twins. If a CEO can offload to an AI double & say, “That wasn’t me, that was the AI,” what happens to responsibility? Or consent? Trust? Liability? As usual, I made my opinions on the topic known. 🔗 www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a...

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My latest post, "Your Settings Are Saved: Consent, simulation, and the right to remain dead in the age of grief tech" is now up! No paywall. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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My latest post, "Your Settings Are Saved: Consent, simulation, and the right to remain dead in the age of grief tech" is now up! No paywall. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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Posted a new piece, "Your Settings Are Saved: Consent, simulation, and the right to remain dead." It looks at grief tech & AI avatars of the dead. These systems promise comfort and access, but they also reshape mourning, authorship, and the meaning of being gone. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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I wrote for @axios.com about the executive “digital twin”: bots trained on a leader’s voice, writing, and decisions to scale their time and influence. With insight from @levie.bsky.social, @samliang.bsky.social @jlevitt.bsky.social and @jgcarpenter.com. Read here: www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a...

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When a synthetic version of a(ny) leader speaks on their behalf, who is responsible for what’s said? If a message causes backlash or confusion, it’s easy to imagine a dodge: “That wasn’t me, that was the AI.” I spoke w/ @axios.com re: AI, accountability, & trust www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a...

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Thx @megmorrone.bsky.social @axios.com for including me in this article re: executives using AI versions of themselves: www.axios.com/2025/06/10/a... "It's sort of widening that gap between executive privilege, technical privilege and the precarity of laborers."

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Who gets to define intelligence? Whose gaze is embedded in robot bodies? What does it mean when the “social” in social robots is engineered, sold, & performed? My book "The Naked Android" is based on interviews with roboticists, designers, sci-fi authors, and users. www.routledge.com/The-Naked-An...

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"The backlash against trans existence is not a side issue; it is central to the broader collapse of bodily rights. Feminism that does not extend itself in defense of trans lives is not feminism, it’s gatekeeping dressed up as theory."

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New! "The task of repair includes protecting the most vulnerable among us, not just in rhetoric but in action. If our movements don’t make space for trans survival, they aren’t liberation movements, they’re just new vessels, destined to break in the same old ways." jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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Wrote about how grief lives in the body, especially when systems demand composure, compliance, or silence. About loss of bodily rights, state violence, & the myth that anyone can carry this alone. (no paywall) "The Body Bears What the System Cannot Hold." #TikkanOlam jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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New! "The task of repair includes protecting the most vulnerable among us, not just in rhetoric but in action. If our movements don’t make space for trans survival, they aren’t liberation movements, they’re just new vessels, destined to break in the same old ways." jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

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If you try to say it's okay to set Jews on fire, you're not anti-genocide. You're just antisemitic and also a fucking monster

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"Antisemitism" as a term was not coined either by Jews or by scholars of bigotry, it was a self-description by anti-Jewish racists to paint their bigotry as more sophisticated and intellectual than that of the lower class riff-raff. To claim they weren't against *Jews*, but against "Semitism".

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These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

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The people in that room weren’t talking about abstract death, they were talking about preventable suffering. It’s preposterous that this passes as governance in America. We are, by choice and design, a shithole country.

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Breaking: HHS is canceling a $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.

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Since we are discussing dolls, I actually worked in a doll factory & warehouse. My experience w/ Bay Area colleagues: not one of them has ever worked a line, picked, or packed an order. Their concept of “labor” begins and ends at a whiteboard. Factories are only a setting for potential tech. 1/2

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The greatest job alert! My team at EFF is hiring and you could be on it: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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This will, of course, terrorize all international students. One cannot simply "transfer" between schools & cities/states, uproot lives abroad, establish new roots to... risk deportation from another US institution for whatever the next threat is from Noem? And do not sleep on this part.. 🧵

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