Summary: This is the tenth episode in the Algocracy and Transhumanism Podcast. In this episode I talk to David Gunkel. David is a professor of communication studies at Northern Illinois University. He specialises in the philosophy and ethics of technology. He is the author of several books, including Hacking Cyberspace, The Machine Question and Of Remixology. I talk to David about two main topics: (i) robot rights and responsibilities and (ii) the cyborgification of society. You can download the episode at this link. You can listen below. You can also subscribe on Stitcher and iTunes (via RSS - click on 'add to iTunes'). Show Notes0:00 - 1:50 - Introduction1:50 - 4:23 - Robots in the News4:23 - 10:46 - How to think about robots: agency vs patiency1:46- 13:20 - The problem of distributed agency13:20 - 18:00 - Robots as tools, machines and agents18:00 - 24:25 - The spectrum of robot autonomy24:25 - 28:04 - Machine learning: is it different this time?28:04 - 39:40 - Should robots have rights and responsibilities?39:40 - 43:55 - New moral patients and emotional manipulation43:55 - 57:14 - Understanding the three types of cyborg57:14 - 1:02:26 - The Borg and the Hivemind Society1:02:26 - End - Cyborgification as a threat to Enlightenment values Relevant LinksDavid's HomepageHacking Cyberspace by DavidThe Machine Question by DavidOf Remixology by David'Responsible Machines: The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Autonomous Agents' by David'Facing Animals: A relational, other-oriented approach to moral standing' by David'Resistance is Futile: Cyborgs, Humanism and the Borg' by David'Ecce Cyborg: The Subject of Communication' by David'Is modern technology creating a Borg-like society?' by John Danaher'Is Resistance Futile? Are we already Borg?' by John Danaher'Robots, Law and the Retribution Gap' by John DanaherThe Bomb Robot and the Dallas shooterEU Parliament report on Civil Law Rules and Robots'Microsoft's disastrous Tay experiment shows hidden dangers of AI' by John West'How Google's Alpha Go beat Lee Sedol', Christopher Moyer, The Atlantic'The Question Concerning Technology' by Martin HeideggerPeter Paul Verbeek - University of Twente'Robots should be slaves' by Joanna Bryson'Extending legal protection to social robots' by Kate Darling'A Cyborg Manifesto' by Donna Haraway'How we became Posthuman' by N Katherine Hayles
