Dr. Eric J. W. Orlowski
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The academic stuff
Peer reviewed publications.
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].
The slightly less academic stuff
Non-peer reviewed publications.
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 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. 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.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.
TikTok Privacy Awareness Month, Singapore. 2025. AI Governance as a value add: why we’re not here to ruin your fun. [UPCOMING].National University of Singapore. 2025. Science Fiction Sensibilities. [UPCOMING].Nanyang Technological University. 2025. Science Fiction Sensibilities.Swedish-British Soc. Stockholm. 2022. Swedish Pioneers - From the Great Emigration to Hjalmar Branting.Anglo-Swedish Soc. 2020. Dominium Maris Baltici, an interview with Dr. Caroline Boggis-Rolfe.Anglo-Swedish Soc. 2019. Two Tumultuous Tales, comparing Peterlee and Ådalen.
Other relevant things
Professional Affiliations.
Research Fellow, AI Governance, National University of Singapore-AI Singapore.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, 2023.Undergraduate Supervisor (Anthropology), 2021-2023, University of Uppsala.Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, University of Uppsala, 2024.Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, University of Uppsala, 2025. [Upcoming]
Funding received.
Helge Ax:son Jonsons Stiftelse 2021 - GBP 5 000.Helge Ax:son Jonsons Stiftelse 2022 - GBP 5 000.Helge Ax:son Jonsons Stiftelse 2023 - GBP 5 000.Region Uppsala Seed Fund 2023 - GBP 5 000 [as Biohackeri].
