dr hab. Edyta Pietrzak, prof. PŁ

Anthropologist and political scientist, professor at the Institute of Marketing and Sustainable Development in the Faculty of Organization and Management. Author of more than eighty scientific publications, editor-in-chief of the Civitas Hominibus yearbook, expert in EU social projects, co-founder of the Open Science Seminars Humanbeing -Business-Technologies. She works on the politics of diversity, theories of civil society and socio-political contexts of management. She enjoys classical music and simple pleasures.

In May 2022, a collaboration between an artist collective and Danish technology company Mindfuture resulted in the creation of the Computer Lars project - involving artificial intelligence and a chatbot imitating a human. It has given rise to the Det Sintetiske Parti (DSP) - the Synthetic Party, which is preparing to run in the upcoming 2023 parliamentary elections.
The Anthropocene is an epoch in which we observe active human intervention in the processes that drive the geological evolution of the planet. It is humans who are modifying the parameters of the planetary system by changing the climate, degrading soil, acidifying oceans, disrupting biochemical cycles, and contributing to the loss of biodiversity.
We are surrounded by the algorithms used in web browsers, shops, and advertisements that are sent to our social networks portals. We use them not only for our shopping choices, but also in making political decisions. Along with their creation and development, the hope to create a scientific, objective and free from prejudices world was revived.