Irina Shklovski

Professor Irina Shklovski holds positions in both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, where she focuses on critical issues surrounding technology and society. Her research interests encompass speculative AI futures, responsible and ethical technology design, online data leakage, information privacy, and the unsettling feelings of powerlessness that individuals often experience due to extensive personal data collection. Professor Shklovski has previously explored topics related to crisis response, population mobility, and technology use during wartime. She leads the European project VIRT-EU (Values and Ethics in Responsible Technology in Europe), which investigates how Internet of Things (IoT) developers integrate ethics into their practices and co-designs interventions to foster ethical reflection on data and privacy within the EU context. Additionally, she is a co-investigator in the European training network DCODE, which focuses on design competence for a shared digital society. Her work critically examines how everyday technologies can become "creepy" and how societal norms may lead people to overlook their discomfort with such technologies.