Dr. Eric J. W. Orlowski
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The academic stuff
Peer reviewed publications.
Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2026. Techno-Utopianism and Everyday Practice in Sweden: New Technologies for Untold Futures. The Future of Humanity and its Successor -book series. Springer Nature: New York City. [forthcoming September 2026].Orlowski, Eric J. W. & Hakim Norhashim. 2026. Cultural data isn't culture; culture is culture: Rethinking cultural alignment practices in large language models (LLMs). [under review].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2026. ‘Who will be my tribe?’: Expanding on network fora through sociotechnical movements in Sweden and Singapore. [under review].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2026. Superhappiness, Superlongevity & Superintelligence: present-ing imaginaries and the failure of the future. Forthcoming with Engaging Science, Technology and Society.Kukk, Kätriin, Danila Petrelli, Judit Casademont, Eric J. W. Orlowski, Michał Dzielinski & Maria Jacobsson. 2025. BiaSWE: An Expert Annotated Dataset for Misogyny Detection in Swedish. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT Conference Proceeding.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.
Orlowski, Eric J. W., Elena Pribytkova & Hakim Norhashim. 2026. Who Defines the Universal? Cultural Alignment, Epistemic Authority, and the Politics of AI Measurements. Social Science Perspectives on Technology Symposium (SPOTS) 2026. [Forthcoming].Khoo, Zi-Yu, Yuriel Ryan, Nicole Heng Yim Oo, Hui En Pang, Eric J. W. Orlowski, Hakim Norhashim, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Simon Chesterman & Bryan Kian Hsiang Low. 2026. Position: Balancing Agency and Assistance in the Tussle for The Right to *. ICML 2026 Workshop AI4GOOD.Orlowski, Eric J. W. & Hakim Norhashim. 2026. AI & Cultural Alignment: Interpretation over Measurement. AI4X-AC 2026.Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2025. From AI Sovereignty to AI Nationalism. Monash University, Malaysia workshop: Sovereignty in AI(-generated) Times.Orlowski, Eric J. W. & Hakim Norhashim. 2025. Cultural Alignment in Practice. National University of Singapore Centre for International Law's Empowering Through Digital Technologies Conference. [Panel 4].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2025. Cultural Alignment & Low-Resource Languages: Adapting LLMs for diverse cultures. The International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum 2025 (U. o. Melbourne). [Panel 5; discussion panel].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.
Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2026 AI Governance Roundtable #6: Governing AI Agents. NUS AI Institute's Roundtables. [Forthcoming].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. Running the Wrong Race: The EU, AI, and the Search for Strategic Leverage. NUS AI Institute's AI Governance & Policy Updates. [Forthcoming].Orlowski, Eric J. W. Leaving the Machine Running: Posthuman Ethics and the Politics of Technology. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC). [Forthcoming].Orlowski, Eric J. W. 2026. The Sovereignty Trap: “Our Own AI” May Leave Southeast Asia Weaker. Tech For Good Institute Perspectives.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. ArXiv. 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.
2026:
2026 Taiwan International Fintech Conference.
Local AI, Bounded Trust: What Meaningful Localisation Requires in Financial Services [Talk].
Generative AI Governance in the Financial Industry [Panel].The Robert Crain Podcast.
The Fragile Balance Between AI Governance and Corporate Interests.Lorong AI: AI Wednesdays "The One About Alignment And Trustworthiness in Agentic AI Systems".
Cultural Data Isn't Culture: Rebalancing Cultural Alignment Methodologies.The AspirAsian Podcast.
Don't Let the Machines Write the Rules.9th Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia Summit.
Panel: The Quantum Leap - Preparing for Realistic Possibilities Amidst Hype and Myths.Asia Tech x (ATx) Singapore 2026.
Panel: AI in Regulated Industries.
Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
AI & Governance: From Principles to Competitive Edge.Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
AI & Implicit Bias: Panel Discussion.2025:
AIForum 25, Panel: Global AI Dynamics & Trends.
Panel Retail & E-Commerce Driving Growth Through Predictive & Personalized AI.Singapore AI Safety Hub.
"A Practical Primer on AI Governance".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.
Current:
Research Fellow, AI Governance & Policy, National University of Singapore Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII).Research Fellow, NUS College.Consultant, Centre for AI Leadership (C4AIL).Vetted consultant, United Nations Development Programme.Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, University of Uppsala.Previous:
Principal Investigator (PI), AISG AI Governance Pillar's Cultural Alignment Research.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.Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University College London.
Active Institutional Collaborations.
University of Nottingham / University of York [through UK RAi / NExT].Korea AI Safety Institute.AI Sweden / Halmstad Högskola.
Courses & teaching.
Ethnographic Methods in a Digitalised World, University of Uppsala, 2026.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.
NUS AI Institute Seed Fund 2026 - SGD 100 000 [as NAII Governance and Policy Team].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.
