Jascha Bareis
Jascha Bareis is a Researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruher Institute for Technology (KIT) and Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, supporting the research program “the evolving of digital society”.
He approaches the topic of Algorithmic Governance through merging Political Theory, Media Studies and Science & Technology Studies. Currently he is working at ITAS for the AI policy advisory project GOAL, “Governance by and through algorithms”, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the project “social trust in learning systems” (GVLS). In cooperation with the HIIG, he investigates discursive constructions and normative dimensions around Artificial Intelligence and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, together with research leaders Dr. Thomas Christian Bächle and Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach.
He holds a MA double degree in Political Theory by the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Technical University Darmstadt and a Bachelor degree in Liberal Arts by the University College Maastricht.
During exchange semesters at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Zagreb he dived into Chinese Philosophy and Ethics of Technology.
Politics & law · Society & cultureThe discursive and political construction of AI
This project empirically investigates the discursive and political construction of AI in contemporary societies. We have started with studies on the media discourse in...
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Bareis, J. (2024). The trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie trust and AI together. Big Data & Society, 11(2), 1-14. DOI: 10.1177/20539517241249430 Publication details
Orwat, C., Bareis, J., Folberth, A., Jahnel, J., Wadephul, C. (2024). Normative Challenges of Risk Regulation of Artificial Intelligence. Nanoethics, 18(11), 1-29. DOI: 10.1007/s11569-024-00454-9 Publication details
Bareis, J, Roßmann, M. & Bordignon, F. (2023). Technology hype: Practices, approaches and assessments. TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 32(3), 11-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.32.3.11 Publication details
Bächle, T. C., & Bareis, J. (2022). “Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies. European Journal of Futures Research, 10(20). DOI: 10.1186/s40309-022-00202-w Publication details
Bareis, J., & Katzenbach, C. (2021). Talking AI into Being: The narratives and imaginaries of national AI strategies and their performative politics. Science, Technology, & Human Values. DOI: 10.1177/01622439211030007 Publication details
Edited works
Bareis, J., Roßmann, M. & Bordignon, F.. (2023). Technology hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising [Special issue]. TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 32(3). DOI: 10.14512/tatup.32.3.10 Publication details
Other publications
Ruschemeier, H., Bareis, J. (2025). Searching for Harmonised Rules: Understanding the Paradigms, Provisions and Pressing Issues in the Final EU AI Act, . Publication details
Bareis, J. (2024). Trust and AI. Big Data & Society. Publication details
Bareis, J. (2024). No Smartphone = Cringe Weirdo. Digital society blog. Publication details
Bareis, J. (2023). We are scared of the question Chat-GPT cannot answer. Because the answer is too obvious. Medium. Publication details
Bareis, J. (2023). BigTech’s Efforts to Derail the AI Act, Bareis, Jascha: BigTech’s Efforts to Derail the AI Act, VerfBlog, 2023/12/05, https://verfassungsblog.de/bigtechs-efforts-to-derail-the-ai-act/, DOI: 10.59704/265f1afff8b3d2df. Publication details
Katzenbach, C., Bareis, J. (2018). Global AI race: States aiming for the top. Digital Society Blog. Publication details
Lectures and presentations
On the production of knowledge and trust authority of LLMs through hypeEuropean Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science: Conference Making and Doing Transformations (EASST/4S 2024) (Session: Traditional Open Panel P175: Towards mapping and defining critical hype studies). European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 17.07.2024 Further information
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The politics of AI ethics: The plucked AI ActAgide Final Conference "Narratives of Digital Actives" (2024) (Session: PANEL 4: NARRATIVES AND DIGITAL ETHICS: NEXT STEPS). Austrian Academy of Science. Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria: 28.06.2024 Further information
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On the Production of Knowledge and Trust Authority of Large Language Models (LLMs)Critiquing Big Tech (2024). Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg, Netherlands: 07.06.2024 Further information
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Nurkse Reading Seminars (2024). TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology und Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance. Online, Online, Online: 11.04.2024Jascha Bareis, Maximilian Roßmann
On Technological Seduction: Hermeneutical Deconstruction of Tech Hype5ème Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS 2023). Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés. University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France: 05.10.2023 Further information
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Einführung in die KI: Chancen und RisikenKI: gesellschaftliche Chancen und Risiken. Münchner Volkshochschule, Munich, Germany: 04.10.2023 Further information
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"Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policiesIAMCR/OCP 23. Communication Policy and Technology Section (CPT) of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France: 26.06.2023 Further information
Thomas Christian Bächle, Jascha Bareis
On Technological Seduction: A Tentative Systematization Of AI Solutionism6th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6 - Toronto 2023). International Public Policy Association (IPPA). Online, Toronto, Canada: 27.06.2023 Further information
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Strategische Kommunikation ohne Strateg:innen? – Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz Regierungskommunikation?Politische Kommunikation und KI – Chancen und Herausforderung für die Regierungskommunikation. (Session: Politische Kommunikation und KI – Chancen und Herausforderung für die Regierungskommunikation.). Helmut Schmidt University. Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany: 23.03.2023 Further information
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Do Politics with Fiction: Circulating Imaginaries of Military AISTS-Hub (Session: Circulating futures: On how to analyze, evaluate and shape the circulations of sociotechnical futures and their impacts for the demands of technology assessment). STS-Hub.de Germany. Human Technology Center, Aachen, Germany: 16.03.2023 Further information
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"Autonomy" and "autonomous weapon systems" as a geopolitical signifiers: AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policiesAutonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society (Session: Autonomie, Künstliche Intelligenz, Neue Technologien). Universität Bonn, RWTH Aachen. Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany: 21.11.2022 Further information
Thomas Christian Bächle, Jascha Bareis
"Autonomous Weapons" as a geopolitical signifier: Analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policiesEASST 2022 (Session: Meaningful human control? Sociotechnical imaginations of AI, drone swarms and the future of warfare). European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. IFEMA North Convention Center, Madrid, Spain: 07.07.2022 Further information
Thomas Christian Bächle, Jascha Bareis
Zwischen Agenda, Zwang und Widerspruch. Der liberale Staat und der Fall KINTA9-TA21: Digital, Direkt, Demokratisch? Technikfolgenabschätzung und die Zukunft der Demokratie. Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Online, Vienna, Austria: 11.05.2021 Further information
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Die Abgabe der Souveränität über Leben und Tod? Letale autonome Waffensysteme als normative Problemstellung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion [Discharging sovereignty over life and death? Autonomous weapon systems as a normative problem between fact and fiction]Künstliche Intelligenz und Weltverstehen. Frühjahrstagung des Leopoldina-Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit INSIST. Leopoldina-Zentrum für Wissenschaftsforschung, Halle, Germany: 02.10.2020 Further information
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Die Abgabe der Souveränität über Leben und Tod? Letale autonome Waffensysteme als normative Problemstellung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion [Discharging sovereignty over life and death? Autonomous weapon systems as a normative problem between fact and fiction]Künstliche Intelligenz und Weltverstehen. Frühjahrstagung des Leopoldina-Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit INSIST (Session: Künstliche Intelligenz und Weltverstehen). Leopoldina-Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung, Halle, Germany: 03.09.2020 Further information
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Sociotechnical weapons: AI myths as national power playEASST4S: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds (Session: Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures 2: De- and Re-Politicizations). Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Online, Prague, Czech Republic: 19.08.2020 Further information
Jascha Bareis, Thomas Christian Bächle
Militärische KI: Sprachspiele der Autonomie und ihre politischen Folgen [Military AI: language games of autonomy and their political consequences]Philosophie der KI - Darmstädter Workshop. Lab3, Darmstadt, Germany: 21.02.2020 Further information
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Mythen und Metaphern der Automatisierung - eine Herausforderung für zwischenstaatliche Regulierung [Myths and metaphors of automatization - a challenge for intergovernmental regulation]Jahrestagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises „Soziologie der internationalen Beziehungen“, in Kooperation mit der GGS-Sektion „Normen und Wandel in der Weltpolitik.“ (Session: Mythen, Narrative, Praktiken & Selbstdarstellungen in der Diplomatie & Weltpolitik). Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW). Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen, Germany: 15.11.2019 Further information
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Narrative constructions and Imaginaries of national AI Strategies – A comparative analysisInternational Conference on AI and Foreign Studies (Session: AI and international & Regional Studies). Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China: 03.11.2019
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Collective swarms competing with singular battle machines: National strategic discourses around military AIKI 2019. (Session: Critical Examination of Military AI Applications). Gesellschaft für Informatik. Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany: 23.09.2019 Further information
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Talking AI into Being: The Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and their Performative PoliticsInternational Association for Media and Communication Research, IAMCR 2019. School of Communication, UCM, Madrid, Spain: 07.07.2019 Further information
Christian Katzenbach, Jascha Bareis
CTRL_SPACE: Eine Kritik der liberalen Öffentlichkeitskonzeption im Zuge staatlicher Überwachung [CTRL_SPACE: A critique of the liberal public space conception in the context of state surveillance]Die Grenzen der Demokratie: 27. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (Session: Studentisches Nachwuchspanel Demokratie und Digitalisierung). Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) & Fachschaft FB03 Goethe Universität. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M., Germany: 26.09.2018 Further information
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Participation as expert
AI Arms Race – National Strategic Discourses and Geopolitical Security CrisisKünstliche Intelligenz als Game-Changer der SicherheitspolitikUniversity of Cologne in collaboration with the Zentrum Informationsarbeit Bundeswehr, Cologne (Webinar), Germany: 22.06.2020
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Media appearances
Die EU und Big Tech riskieren eine Krise des Wissens (27.12.2023). Der Standard
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Die EU und Big Tech riskieren eine Krise des Wissens (27.12.2023). Der Standard
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Wir haben Angst vor der Frage, die Chat-GPT nicht beantworten kann (20.04.2023). Der Standard
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Wohnungssuche: Drei Zimmer, Küche, KI (11.08.2021). UnAuf
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KI 2019: "Züge die aufeinander zurasen" – Warnungen vor KI fürs Militär (25.09.2019). heise
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Position
Associated researcher: The evolving digital society
