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An­dreas Forst­ing

PhD fellow

Subjects
IT Artificial intelligence Discourse Sustainability

Primary research areas

AI and Sustainability

AI is advancing at an incredible pace, but so too is it the toll it takes on the environment. I investigate this connection between technological progress and sustainability.

Problematisation and Problem Representation

My analytical angle looks at how we as a society consider certain things to be problems, and how this problematisation is informed by all the things we take for granted. This angle is inspired by the work of Carol Bacchi and Michel Foucault.

Information Infrastructure and classification

Most things in society are put together through various systems of classification and standardisation. These systems are political and impactful, and require critical scrutiny.

Sustainable progress is a choice for everyone to make

My interests in a nutshell 
The modern world is one built on the notions of perpetual growth, underpinned by technological progress. The most recent technology promising to continue this trend is Artificial Intelligence. However, while promising benefits across numerous areas of society, this progress comes at environmental and social costs. These costs are not just technologically, but also socially grounded. 

My research 
I explore how the environmental and social costs of AI are driven through social processes such as problematisation, from a critical theory perspective. My goal is to explore how technological progress is driven by social dynamics, and the ways in which these dynamics lead to more or less sustainable outcomes.