Dr. Eric J. W. Orlowski
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The academic stuff
Peer reviewed publications.
Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2025. ‘Who will be my tribe?’: Expanding on network fora through sociotechnical movements in Sweden and Singapore. [UNDER REVIEW].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2025. Superhappiness, Superlongevity & Superintelligence: present-ing imaginaries and the failure of the future. [UNDER REVIEW].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2025. New Technologies for Untold Futures: Techno-utopianism and everyday practice in Sweden. University College London. [Thesis] [Embargoed].Goldsmith, David J. A. & Eric J. W. Orlowski. 2023. Don’t Forget About the Children - A narrative review of how COVID-19 pandemic policy in the UK and Sweden impacted Children’s wellbeing. Journal of the European Society of Medicine. 11(11).Orlowski, Eric J. W. & David Goldsmith. 2020. Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden’s prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 113(8).Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2020. Evolution, Revolution, and the New Man: An ethnographic investigation into microchipping, human augmentation, and building new futures. Ethnofoor 31(1).Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2019. Piłsudski’s Poland: Revolutionary Romanticism. Anthropolitan 16(0).
Academic conferences.
Kukk, Kätriin, Danila Petrellia, Judit Casademont, Eric J. W. Orlowski, Michał Dzielinski & Maria Jacaobsson. 2025. BiaSWE: An Expert Annotated Dataset for Misogyny Detection in Swedish. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT [poster presentation].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2023. Death as the Mere Interruption of life: the technoscientific road to eternity. International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). [Panel Narr02]Orlowski, Eric J. W. & Katherine Pfieffer. 2022. Microbes and Microchips: Emergent Technologies, Emergent Futures. Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI): Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. [Panel 044].Orlowski, Eric. J. W. 2022. Heuristic Repair for the future. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. [Panel 007b].
Reports, white papers and the like
Reports & White Papers.
Handforth, Calum, Kevin Schmidt, Hong Kiu Chow & Eric J. W. Orlowski. 2025. How People-Centred Technology, Innovation, and Data can Drive Urban Development, White Paper - Version 1.0. United Nations Development Programme.Orlowski, Eric, Hakim Norhashim & Tristan Koh Ly Wey. 2025. Taming Cultural Fractals: Why AI Needs to Get ‘Thick’ - A 'distilled' working paper. AI Singapore Governance Updates.Seow, Ethan, Jalaj Jain & Eric J. W. Orlowski. 2025. Generative AI: Trends, Risks and Governance: A Comprehensive Regulation and Risk Framework for Development, Implementation and Best Practices. C4AIL.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2024. AI Governance Roundtable #3: Sustainable Growth and AI. AISG AI Governance Roundtables.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2024. ASEAN AI Governance Roundtable #1: Thailand. AISG AI Governance Roundtables.
The slightly less formal stuff
Non-peer reviewed publications.
Orlowski, Eric J. W., Hakim Norhashim, Tristan Koh Ly Wey. 2025. 'Too much alignment; not enough culture': Re-balancing cultural alignment practices in LLMs v 1. ArXive. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26167. [PRE-PRINT].Ramalingam, Chithra Latha, Eric J. W. Orlowski & Michael L. Bak. 2025. BUDAYA AI: A Malaysian vision for inclusive AI governance that can inspire global AI development. The Edge Malaysia.Orlowski, Eric J. W. & Juan Forero-Duarte. 2025. “Excavating” Cosmotechnical Diversity in Colombia and Sweden. Platypus: The CASTAC Blog.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2024. AI on Trial: Navigating Explainability and Transparency. Tech for Good Institute.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2024. What Are We Even Talking About? Jargon Matters; It Is Time To Re-Think How We Talk About AI. AISG AI Governance Updates.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2024. ASEAN AI Governance Roundtable #1: Thailand. AISG AI Governance Roundtables.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2020. Towards a Bright Post-Apocalypse. UCL MedAnth Blog.Orlowski, Eric. J. W. 2020. What’s so distracting? A social media autoethnography. UCL Anthropolitcan Blog.
Public speaking and talky stuff.
Upcoming:
The International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2025.
"Cultural Alignment & Low-Resource Languages: Adapting LLMs for diverse cultures".Responsible AI Summit 2025, Singapore.
"Cultural Alignment for more responsible AI".Singapore AI Safety Hub.
"A Practical Primer on AI Governance".AspirAsian Podcast.
AI Governance Chat with Chrissie Choo.2025:
School of Humanities & Behavioural Sciences, Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Guest Lecture on Cross-Cultural Governance of AI for AI and Public Administration.Singapore AI Safety Hub's AI Governance Series with Singapore AI Safety Hub.
"AI & Society: Agency, Responsibility, and Collective Choices in the Age of Emergent AI".University of Warwick's Warwick Business School Lunchtime Seminars.
"Excavating Cosmotechnics: Disrupting the Silicon Valley metaphor".Duco Online.
Panel Discussion on No One-Size-Fits-All: Regional Risk, Cultural Alignment, and AI Governance in Southeast Asia.Tech For Good Institute & Singapore Management University.
Roundtable on Fit-for-Purpose Governance in the Innovation Age: Spotlight on Singapore.Sabah GLC Leadership Summit.
Panel Discussion on Harnessing Future Technologies for Economic Resilience.Asia Tech Expo (ATx) Summit.
Stanford Centre for Human AI & AI Singapore's Governance Pillar's Workshop on Cross-Cultural Governance of AI.TikTok Privacy Awareness Month.
"AI Governance as a value add: why we’re not here to ruin your fun".Tembusu College, National University of Singapore.
Guest Lecture on "Science Fiction Sensibilities".Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University.
Guest Lecture on "Science Fiction Sensibilities".
Other relevant things
Professional Affiliations.
Research Fellow, AI Governance, National University of Singapore-AI Singapore.Principal Investigator (PI), AISG AI Governance Pillar's Cultural Alignment Research.Member, National AI Office Malaysia, AI Governance Working Group.Member, Interdisciplinary Expert Pool, AI Sweden.Vetted consultant, United Nations Development Programme.Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Uppsala.Former Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University College London.Principal Research Lead, Biohackeri Uppsala.
Courses & teaching.
Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, University of Uppsala, 2025.Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, University of Uppsala, 2024.Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, University of Uppsala, 2023.Undergraduate Supervisor (Anthropology), 2021-2023, University of Uppsala.
Funding received.
Region Uppsala Seed Fund 2023 - GBP 5 000 [as Biohackeri].Helge Ax:son Jonsons Stiftelse 2023 - GBP 5 000.Helge Ax:son Jonsons Stiftelse 2022 - GBP 5 000.Helge Ax:son Jonsons Stiftelse 2021 - GBP 5 000.
