David J. Gunkel (PhD Philosophy) is an award-winning educator, researcher, and author, specializing in the philosophy of technology with a focus on the moral and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and robots. He is the author of over 115 scholarly articles and has published nineteen books, including Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology (Purdue University Press 2007), The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics (MIT Press 2012), Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix (MIT Press 2016), Robot Rights (MIT Press 2018), Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond (MIT Press 2023), Handbook on the Ethics of AI (Edward Elgar 2024), and Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models (Polity 2025). He currently holds the position of Department Chair and is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA) and is professor of applied ethics at Łazarski University in Warsaw, Poland.