I research and work on issues having to do with philosophy of technology and related concerns having to do with ethics and digital medial and new media.Īurora: I had the pleasure of hearing your presentation when you were a keynote speaker at the Digital Symposium in April in Edmonton. I really couldn’t decide when I was an undergraduate so I just did both and I have advanced degrees in both media production, media critical studies and then in continental philosophy. Gunkel: My background is sort of a split/dual personality in media studies and philosophy. Raphael Foshay,Īurora: Maybe you could start by telling us a few words about yourself, where you teach and your background. The symposium was funded by a Connection Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and organized by Dr. Gunkel is the Presidential Teaching Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Illinois University. Later that year we met over Skype to talk about some of the points raised in his presentation, and other key ideas embedded in his 2012 publication, The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots and Ethics. His talk challenged the audience to reframe and rethink the “human-machine” binary in 21st century understandings of ethics and agency. SSHRC funded international symposium hosted by Athabasca University. Gunkel was a keynote speaker for “Identity, Agency, and the Digital Nexus”, April 2013, Do Machines Have Rights? Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligenceĭavid J.
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