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Tomasz Hollanek
PhD student
Visiting Research Fellow
Litterature
Philosophy
AI, design, critical theory, ethics, environment
ENS-PSL
Department of Philosophy
Published on
6 September 2021
, updated on
6 September 2021
Gonville and Caius College
Trinity Street
Cambridge
CB2 1TA
United Kingdom
Trinity Street
Cambridge
CB2 1TA
United Kingdom
Tomasz Hollanek is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and the Observatoire des humanités numériques at the ENS, where he will work with Dr Léa Saint-Raymond on contemporary perceptions of AI in the Francophone world.
Field of research
Tomasz Hollanek is a PhDresearcher at theUniversity of Cambridge, working at the intersection of design theory, technologyethics and critical AI studies. HisPhDworkfocuses on therole of critique in the design process in general – and the development of artificial intelligence in particular. He is also a PhDFellow at theLeverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at Cambridge and has contributed to variousresearchprojects, includingtheGlobal AI Narratives Project at CFI, the Computational Propaganda Project at the Oxford Internet Institute, and theEthics of Digitalization research sprinthosted by theBerkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
- 'AI transparency: a matter of reconciling design with critique,' AI & Society (2020).
- ‘Non-user-friendly: Staging Resitance with Interpassive User Experience Design’ APRJA Machine Feeling, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2019), 184-193.
Commissioned essays
- 'Ex-centricity,' A New AI Lexicon (forthcoming 2021).
- 'A human–silkworm collaboration shows the way to sustainable design,' Aeon+Psyche (2021).
Book chapters
- ‘The meanings of AI: a cross-cultural comparison,’ with S. Cave, K. Dihal, H. Katsuno, Y. Liu, A. Taillandier, D. White, in: Cave and Dihal, Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (forthcoming 2022 with Oxford UP).
- ‘AI Oasis? Imagining Intelligent Machines in the Middle East and North Africa,’ with K. Dihal, N. Rizk, N. Weheba, S. Cave, in: Cave and Dihal, Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (forthcoming 2022 with Oxford UP).
Reports
- Imagining a Future with Intelligent Machines: A Middle Eastern and North African Perspective. With K. Dihal, N. Rizk, N. Weheba, and S. Cave. Cambridge: The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2021) – peer reviewed.
- Digital Ethics in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 and Access to Education and Learning Spaces. With Participants in an Ethics of Digitalization Research Sprint. The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (2021).
Peer-reviewed proceedings
- ’Speculating on Artificial Intelligence: From Early Photography to Contemporary Design,’ xCoAx 2019: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X Milan, Italy (2019), 380-385.
- 'Non-user-friendly,’ A Peer-Reviewed Newspaper About Machine Feeling, Vol 8, Issue 1 (2019).
Other publications
- 'Review: Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others by Louise Amoore,' Design Issues (forthcoming 2021).
- 'The Chinese are ‘selling bats’ again? This is how junk news manipulates the most critical readers ,' Medium (2020).
- Gisèle Halimi, 'Akt prokreacji to akt wolności,' trans. Tomasz Hollanek, Krytyka Polityczna (2020).