Sven Thomas

Since April 2022, I have been working as a research assistant for Juniorprofessor Suzana Alpsancar in the Heinz Nixdorf Institutes “Applied Ethics, Ethics of Technology” workgroup. My research focuses on issues that examine the impact of new technological artefacts on our interaction with others and with the world. Here, I am particularly interested in everyday things, such as how we deal with and use messaging services, social media or dating platforms as well as technologies that run in the background, such as the algorithmic translation of languages, which is subject of my Phd-project. Here I am particularly interested in the philosophical and epistemological changes in the way we deal with languages, which are indicated by the transition from an aesthetic to an instrumental process of translation. With my studies, I would like to contribute to using the many new inventions more consciously in order to be able to emphasise the advantages for our lives, which result from them, and not to succumb passively to the logics inherent in them.