Josh Gellers
@joshgellers.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science. Expert, Global AI Ethics Institute. Author, Rights for Robots. Co-editor, OUP’s AI in Society series. https://www.joshgellers.com
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of @UofNorthFlorida's new #AI for Work and Life certificate! No technical experience required. Taught by industry and academic experts. The best part? The certificate is FREE through the end of 2025! Register here: learn.getcertificate.online/courses/cour...
AI for Work and Life
This program helps professionals, students, and lifelong learners apply AI in practical contexts at work and in daily life.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of @UofNorthFlorida's new #AI for Work and Life certificate! No technical experience required. Taught by industry and academic experts. The best part? The certificate is FREE through the end of 2025! Register here: learn.getcertificate.online/courses/cour...
PSA: Please don’t get your nutritional facts and dietary advice from AI.
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
PSA: Please don’t get your nutritional facts and dietary advice from AI.
Paging Senate Democrats:
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Paging Senate Democrats:
Actually, it’s only regime change if it comes from the régime region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling interference.
June 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Actually, it’s only regime change if it comes from the régime region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling interference.
A good time to be part of @esgproject.bsky.social!
Could there be a more timely call? We are offering up to £300k for international research projects on a series of transnational and planetary challenges including digital technology, global health and earth system governance. Please spread the word!
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June 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A good time to be part of @esgproject.bsky.social!
This weekend, I passed 1K citations. I never thought I would hit this # as a political scientist with a non-elite pedigree who studied an obscure topic. Yet here we are. Thanks to everyone who has cited my work approvingly or critically over the years!
June 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This weekend, I passed 1K citations. I never thought I would hit this # as a political scientist with a non-elite pedigree who studied an obscure topic. Yet here we are. Thanks to everyone who has cited my work approvingly or critically over the years!
Has anyone ever heard of a journal published by @springernature.com called "Knowledge in Society"? My ORCID record was just updated showing that I completed a review for this journal but I've never heard of it and can't find anything about it online.
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Has anyone ever heard of a journal published by @springernature.com called "Knowledge in Society"? My ORCID record was just updated showing that I completed a review for this journal but I've never heard of it and can't find anything about it online.
Some news from #Florida on #AI rights. A judge has ruled that chatbots don’t have free speech rights. Rights theory is currently a mess & it looks like judges might have to be the ones to clean it up for the scholars who can’t agree on who or what deserves legal rights. www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...
In lawsuit over Orlando teen’s suicide, judge rejects that AI chatbots have free speech rights
The federal judge's order will allow a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed, in what legal experts say is among the latest constitutional tests of artificial intelligence.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Some news from #Florida on #AI rights. A judge has ruled that chatbots don’t have free speech rights. Rights theory is currently a mess & it looks like judges might have to be the ones to clean it up for the scholars who can’t agree on who or what deserves legal rights. www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...
This is a very sad but interesting test of moral rights. Advocates of the properties-based approach to moral status (ie most animal rights theorists) would likely argue that since the woman is brain dead, she is not sentient and therefore doesn't have rights. www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...
Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus due to abortion ban
Georgia's law that restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected doesn't allow relatives to have a say in whether a pregnant woman is kept on life support.
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May 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is a very sad but interesting test of moral rights. Advocates of the properties-based approach to moral status (ie most animal rights theorists) would likely argue that since the woman is brain dead, she is not sentient and therefore doesn't have rights. www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...
As I wrote about in my award-winning 2020 book, Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law, using a properties-based approach to moral/legal status is riddled with issues. Rights theory is more complex and messier than these tech bros think!
I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights.
Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.
April 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
As I wrote about in my award-winning 2020 book, Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law, using a properties-based approach to moral/legal status is riddled with issues. Rights theory is more complex and messier than these tech bros think!
April 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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When AI eats its own tail, it damages the environment. My new piece, Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/881/) is out from Oxford University Press, with great editors @joshgellers.bsky.social and @spillteori.bsky.social. #OUP #AIethics #newoil
Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI
If “data is the new oil,” then corruption in the data used to train artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a new form of pollution. Environmental AI has traditionally been discussed in terms of its ...
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March 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When AI eats its own tail, it damages the environment. My new piece, Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/881/) is out from Oxford University Press, with great editors @joshgellers.bsky.social and @spillteori.bsky.social. #OUP #AIethics #newoil
I'm pleased to announce that the first series of chapters (12 and counting) associated with the Environments unit of @oxunipress.bsky.social #AI in Society Series is now live! Click here to view all current chapters: shorturl.at/1GwFJ
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm pleased to announce that the first series of chapters (12 and counting) associated with the Environments unit of @oxunipress.bsky.social #AI in Society Series is now live! Click here to view all current chapters: shorturl.at/1GwFJ
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An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
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LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.
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March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
Thanks for the follow, @mcuban.bsky.social! I appreciate what you’re doing here on Bluesky and look forward to sharing ideas.
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Thanks for the follow, @mcuban.bsky.social! I appreciate what you’re doing here on Bluesky and look forward to sharing ideas.
I'm pleased to share my review of 2 excellent new books on the moral status of non-humans: @jeffsebo.bsky.social's The Moral Circle & Webb Keane's Animals, Robots, Gods. Check out the review published in @science.org here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #AI #animals #nature
Morality in a more-than-human world
Two authors probe the metrics by which we determine who, and what, matters
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February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm pleased to share my review of 2 excellent new books on the moral status of non-humans: @jeffsebo.bsky.social's The Moral Circle & Webb Keane's Animals, Robots, Gods. Check out the review published in @science.org here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #AI #animals #nature
Recently I joined Dr. Mary Treyz and UNF graduate student Hudson Main on the podcast How to Ruin Dinner to discuss the moral status of #AI, the use of AI in #highered, and #ethics in the #Anthropocene. Check out the episode here: marytreyz.domains.unf.edu/podcast/epis...
Episode #80 – How To Think About Artificial Intelligence – How to Ruin Dinner
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February 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Recently I joined Dr. Mary Treyz and UNF graduate student Hudson Main on the podcast How to Ruin Dinner to discuss the moral status of #AI, the use of AI in #highered, and #ethics in the #Anthropocene. Check out the episode here: marytreyz.domains.unf.edu/podcast/epis...
If you're like me, you find the idea of "human-centered AI" both redundant and harmful. Thankfully, there is a call for papers for a special issue of Topoi, "Rethinking human-centeredness: Bridging environmental and AI ethics discourses." Check it out here: link.springer.com/collections/...
Rethinking Human-Centeredness: Bridging Environmental and AI Ethical Discourses
Paper submissions are invited for the special issue/collection of Topoi entitled: Rethinking Human-Centeredness: Bridging Environmental and AI Ethical ...
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January 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you're like me, you find the idea of "human-centered AI" both redundant and harmful. Thankfully, there is a call for papers for a special issue of Topoi, "Rethinking human-centeredness: Bridging environmental and AI ethics discourses." Check it out here: link.springer.com/collections/...
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Join the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission for Gracious Space: Creating Conditions for Community Across Political Differences. There's a "Gracious Space" in each of the 14 City Council Districts on Wednesday, 1/22.
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January 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Join the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission for Gracious Space: Creating Conditions for Community Across Political Differences. There's a "Gracious Space" in each of the 14 City Council Districts on Wednesday, 1/22.
For locations & registration: mlkgraciousspace2025.paperform.co?utm_source=p...
For locations & registration: mlkgraciousspace2025.paperform.co?utm_source=p...
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I was invited in December by the Learning Planet Institute in Paris for a podcast to share how Artificial Intelligence and social simulations can empower inclusive decision making to accelerate the SDGs.
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#8 Empowering Inclusive Decisions with AI & Social Simulations for SDG acceleration with Serge Stinckwich
Épisode de l’émission · R&D Unplugged · 15/01/2025 · 17 min
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January 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I was invited in December by the Learning Planet Institute in Paris for a podcast to share how Artificial Intelligence and social simulations can empower inclusive decision making to accelerate the SDGs.
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Last week I had the privilege of a lifetime- serving as a moderator on a panel featuring several of Jacksonville's most accomplished women and famed Indigenous scholar, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Our conversation revolved around themes from Robin's books such as gratitude, kinship, and reciprocity.
January 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Last week I had the privilege of a lifetime- serving as a moderator on a panel featuring several of Jacksonville's most accomplished women and famed Indigenous scholar, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Our conversation revolved around themes from Robin's books such as gratitude, kinship, and reciprocity.
If you think AGI is scary you should see home insurance rates in Florida. They’re legitimately terrifying.
January 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
If you think AGI is scary you should see home insurance rates in Florida. They’re legitimately terrifying.
This was a super interesting read. The author argues that the university is a kind of artificial intelligence governed by black box thinking. But we can change that.
Do our grading practices harm students?
Are schools and colleges forms of artificial intelligence?
Can we change the purpose of our big algorithmic educational systems from sorting humans to helping them grow?
Dan Davies and @josheyler.bsky.social help answer.
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Are schools and colleges forms of artificial intelligence?
Can we change the purpose of our big algorithmic educational systems from sorting humans to helping them grow?
Dan Davies and @josheyler.bsky.social help answer.
open.substack.com/pub/ailogblo...
Grading is a black box inside a very old, very slow AI
AI Log reviews The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies and Failing our Future by Josh Eyler.
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January 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This was a super interesting read. The author argues that the university is a kind of artificial intelligence governed by black box thinking. But we can change that.
Christmas came early. @jeffsebo.bsky.social
December 22, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Christmas came early. @jeffsebo.bsky.social
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As we prepare for the busy holiday travel season, I’m thrilled to introduce a welcoming “hologram” message from me at JIA! It’s a symbol of our commitment to Jax being a hub for technological innovation and it's just the start.
Watch the message and read more: www.jacksonville.gov/welcome/news...
Watch the message and read more: www.jacksonville.gov/welcome/news...
December 19, 2024 at 5:22 PM
As we prepare for the busy holiday travel season, I’m thrilled to introduce a welcoming “hologram” message from me at JIA! It’s a symbol of our commitment to Jax being a hub for technological innovation and it's just the start.
Watch the message and read more: www.jacksonville.gov/welcome/news...
Watch the message and read more: www.jacksonville.gov/welcome/news...