
Paul SchützeOsnabrück University | UOS · Institute of Cognitive Science
Paul Schütze
Master of Science
PhD on the connection of AI and the Ecological Crisis.
Find me here: paulschuetze.de
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Paul is a research assistant in the Ethics of AI research group at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. In his research he focuses on the structure and functioning of digital capitalism and its connections to the climate crisis. Particularly, he is interested in the textures of power and subjectivation in the age of Big Data and AI. He has a background in affect studies, philosophy of mind and critical social philosophy.
Website: paulschuetze.de
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Dieser Beitrag diskutiert den Einfluss von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) auf gesell-schaftliche un/reale Interaktionsräume. Insbesondere umreißt er die Ideologie des »AI Futu-rism«, welche KI-Technologien als unausweichlichen Fortschritt und zentrales Element zu-künftiger gesellschaftlicher Strukturen zeichnet. AI Futurism verschleiert die breiteren...
Recently, the notion of "sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI)" has gained traction. The contention is that AI technologies hold promise for addressing climate challenges by providing sustainable solutions. In that way, sustainable AI is supposed to harness AI's capabilities while upholding ethical standards and minimizing its resources use, suc...
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of AI technologies on the climate crisis beyond their mere resource consumption. To critically examine this impact, I introduce the concept of AI futurism. With this term I capture the ideology behind AI, and argue that this ideology is inherently connected to the climate crisis. This is becaus...
We are right in the middle of the climate crisis, and if we do not take adequate action by the end of the decade the outlook is devastating. In the face of this all-pervasive crisis, we, as philosophers, need to confront the fact that direct and rapid action against a climate collapse appears to be the only way forward. In this article, we therefor...
In this paper, we explore a rationalistic orientation in Western society. We suggest that this orientation is one of the predominant ways in which Western society tends to frame, understand and deal with a majority of problems and questions – namely in terms of mathematical analysis, calculation and quantification, relying on logic, numbers, and st...
In this text we construe affect as a conservative force, as glue that holds social life in place. With this starting point, we direct our attention towards the unfolding of the ecological crises. Using the case of ‘automobile supremacy’, we discuss a paradigmatic affective formation that keeps Western societies deadlocked in a loop of business as u...
In this poster, we examine dominant modern and more minoritarian human-nature relationships through the lens of situated and enactive accounts of cognition. We suggest that in order address the climate crisis sustainably, we need to reconsider how we make sense of and therefore relate to the (natural) world. This is because, as we will show, the co...
In this paper, I develop the concept of affective milieus by building on the recently established notion of affective arrangements. Affective arrangements bring together the more analytical research of situated affectivity with affect studies informed by cultural theory. As such, this concept takes a step past the usual synchronic understanding of...
in Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia Vol. 10, No. 1 (2019)
Common philosophical approaches on the adequacy of emotions usually focus on the most objective assessment of the situation. In contrast to this, I claim that this objective stance, generally called "fittingness", does not satisfy the current needs of emotional evaluation. G...