Audrey Borowski

Since her doctorate, Audrey’s interests have focused more narrowly on the philosophical, conceptual and social underpinnings and ramifications of artificial intelligence and especially algorithmic systems.
Since current debates in AI often largely reenact previous ones, Audrey examines how 20th century thought can shed useful light on them and be updated to the current world. Data in its various constant recombinations as it is constantly redeployed and fed back, has come to produce meaning, occupy our life-worlds, and shape reality. Crucially, it powers ideology, further depriving us from the conditions for genuine political action. Audrey’s current project in particular examines how algorithmic systems tend to compound our current epistemic, political and social crises and threaten shared frameworks of social understanding and action especially through the lens of the philosophical writings of Hannah Arendt, Hans Blumenberg and Theodor Adorno with a view to drawing solutions to help ensure common flourishing and ‘world-building.’