Professor Tobias Blanke

Tobias Blanke is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation. He is also affiliated with King’s College London. His academic background is in computer science and political philosophy. Blanke’s principal research interests lie in artificial intelligence and big data devices for research, particularly in the human sciences. He has also published extensively on ethical questions of Artificial Intelligence such as predictive policing and algorithmic otherings, as well as critical digital practices, and the critique of digital platforms.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

• Artificial Intelligence
• Philosophy
• Social and Cultural Analytics

Selected publications

• Aradau, C. & Blanke, T., Algorithmic Reason: The new Government of Self and Other. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. (Winner ISA-STAIR award).
• Blanke, T., Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving. Nature Humanities Social Sciences Communications, 11, 201 (2024).
• Blanke, T., & Aradau, C. (2021). Computational Genealogy: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Political Rhetoric of US Presidents. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 54(1), pp. 29–43.
• Colavizza, G., Blanke, T., Jeurgens, C., & Noordegraaf, J. (2021). Archives and AI: An overview of current Debates and future Perspectives. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 15(1), pp. 1–15.
• Blanke, T., & Pybus, J. (2020). The Material Conditions of Platforms: Monopolization through Decentralization. Social Media & Society, 6(4).