Bogdan Lungu

About

Bogdan-Andrei Lungu explores sociotechnical interventions and infrastructural evaluations of AI systems through auditing related-analysis. Together with Goda Klumbytė and David Hartmann, he investigates the material and social anatomies of AI systems to evaluate their effects on human-AI-society relations. 

Bogdan’s academic and CSO work tackle media studies, technology ethics, digital rights activism, and critical AI studies. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the social & political effects of generative artificial intelligence at the University of Babeș-Bolyai. In his research, he tackled questions of tech regulation, AI Agents, infrastructures of labour, personhood and machine-learning systems, power asymmetries in relational chatbots, and digital rights activist resistance in relation to AI/ML systems.

He is especially interested in the relation between AI and labour, where opaque AI systems invisibilise the hidden labour(s) behind the generative interface. More, he is part of the executive board of the Association for Technology and Internet (ApTI) from Romania, where he engages in critical advocacy related to digital rights, tech regulation, and law. Recently, he worked on the ethics of chatbots, investigating how recursive infrastructures embedded in LLMs change personhood’s expression and what this means for human rights and digital governance. Proposing a novel “infra-ethical” approach regarding ethics, his framework moves discussions of governance of AI from abstract notions toward concrete infrastructure. He published in AI & Society from Springer, in Mediatization Journal from UMCS, Poland, and a bookchapter on media epistemology in Dynamics of Communication from FSPAC, Cluj.  

Research Group: Data, Algorithmic Systems and Ethics (01.05.-25.06.2026)