I am a research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, on the theme "New Technologies and the future of humanity", and professor of analytical sociology at Linköping University.
I am a methodically broad researcher of social science who investigates how culture changes. At the moment I am actively working on how AI will influence society in the coming 15 years and why values and norms change.
In my work I focus on changes of patterns on a societal level depending on large quantities of individual events. Examples of central variables that my explanations are based on are: what governs purchasing decisions, what behaviours are most likely to be punished or what arguments lie behind different values.
With a starting point in these events on an individual level, I make mathematical models that predict societal changes such as changes in the public opinion, or which AI applications that are being spread.
You can read more about my research at:
www.pontusstrimling.com
www.globalsocialnorms.org
www.predictionsinsocialscience.org/
www.ai-futures.com
Publications
Emma Engström, Pontus Strimling (2020), Deep learning diffusion by infusion into preexisting technologies–Implications for users and society at large, Technology in Society
