Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basinska

• Year

  2023

• Program

  AI2050

• Institution

  University of Cambridge, Adam Mickiewicz University

• Location

  UK

Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska is a Research Fellow at The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, with a background in cultural and media studies. In her research, she explores how digital technologies (re)shape our understanding of death, loss, grief, and afterlife presence. Her work intersects the fields of technology, culture, and thanatology.

From 2020-2023, she held an individual grant entitled “Immortality. Contemporary Technocultural Strategies,” funded by the Polish National Science Center. In February 2022, she defended (with distinction) her doctoral thesis. Recognizing the clear need for interdisciplinary research in the field of (im)mortality technologies, as part of her doctoral dissertation, she developed a theoretical framework for a new sub-discipline called “(im)mortality studies“. 

Since 2020 she has been collaborating with The Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, focusing on the development of responsible approaches to AI-driven technologies of (im)mortality. In 2021 she co-organized and co-moderated (with Dr Stephen Cave) an international conference ‘Digital (Im)mortality. Philosophy, Ethics and Design’. She is also a team member of an international scientific consortium ‘Digital Death. Transforming History, Ritual, and Afterlife’ (as a part of EU CHANSE ).