Dr Eric J W Orlowski Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Research Fellow in AI Governance with a research interest and focus on how narratives affect the way emerging tech -- like AI -- is used (and/or abused).My personal research project focuses on innovation, invention, and grassroots communities and their engagement with AI.

London, England, United Kingdom

Thesis title: New Technologies for Untold Futures -- Techno-Utopianism and Everyday Practice in Sweden.Supervisors are Professor Charles Stewart, and Dr Tone Walford, both of UCL Anthropology.Abstract: This thesis considers the future as a social and cultural construct through the lens of technology. The research focuses on techno-utopian ideas and how these translate into practice among several disparate—yet connected—groups and communities in Sweden, including transhumanists, biohackers, and cryonicists.These techno-utopians are radical only in the sense that they genuinely believe that technology can solve all problems humanity is facing, and will ever face. Yet, despite their radical techno-belief, there is both a failure of imagination—whereby they fail to imagine a future substantially different than the present—whilst also not being radical enough in their practices, preferring instead to fall back on an cosmology of humanity in the aggregate as a driver of inevitable progress.Based on the fieldwork carried out in Sweden among these communities—at their event spaces; their so-called third spaces; their offices; and wherever else they meet and spend time—the first half of this thesis focuses primarily on their practices, and how they imbue seemingly mundane, everyday objects with potential to bring about the techno-enlightened future. The second half focuses primarily on the methods of future-making: how the future is (failed to be) imagined, and how these imaginaries are sustained by a cosmology of inevitable human progress. Taken together, this gives their future visions a decidedly tragic undertone.As this thesis aims to contribute to the existing anthropological work on temporality and the future, I maintain here that in the face of uncertainty for what the future is, technology more broadly becomes entangled into the future as a cultural idea, and charged to answer questions that only humans can answer.

London, England, United Kingdom

The UCL Cities Partnerships Programme, organised by UCL Global, is a direct response to Brexit. Organised as a means to maintain meaningful research links and networks with other European research institutions, the Programme offers seed-funding to UCL-based researchers wishing to start new projects -- long or short term! -- with institutions on mainland Europe.Presently, the Programme has three partnership cities where it operates together with local authorities and institutions:-Paris: 2018-present-Rome: 2019-present-Stockholm: 2020-presentMy research and communications role covers the following areas:-Researching & contacting future potential partners within the established partner cities.-Running online communications for the programme.-Keeping up to speed on on-going projects.-Content production for the programme as a whole.This is an on-going freelance role.

London, United Kingdom

Alongside my academic work, I also engage in freelance work based on my previous industry skills; in particular market research work and content production:-Survey design-Market research project management-Survey programming-Database work-Content production-Client communication-Desk research

London, United Kingdom

A short-term placement at Firefish. The role focused on assisting the team with the whole research process including:-Research design-Fieldwork-Analysis

London, United Kingdom

M3 Global Research is a market research agency specialising in medical market research across the globe. As research manager, my role pivoted around end-to-end delivery of project to a wide array of clients. The work included a wide range of quantitative approaches from brand tracking to product and advertising ad-hoc work, often with a multi-market approach.As a client-facing role, it further included data reporting, resource procurement & organisation, survey design, and programming elements.

London, United Kingdom

Working under the supervision of more experienced staff at Simon-Kucher & Partners, the position called for data collection and preliminary analysis. As a support position, I was also involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of client projects.

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Social And Cultural Anthropology

This qualification served as the foundation for my continued PhD work on human augmentation technology and practices in Sweden. My MPhil.

Master Of Science - Ms, Social And Cultural Anthropology, Distinction (1St Class Degree)

A one-year degree in sociocultural anthropology, during which the focus of both my courses and my thesis has been focusing on the social.

Bsc (Econ) (Hons) Human Geography With Business Management, Human Geography, Second Class (Upper Division)

Activities and Societies: Awarded QMUL Entrepreneurs' Prize 2012Undergraduate in Human Geography with focus on the built environment.

International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate