Dr. Mattis Jacobs

• Applied Ethics
• Political Philosophy
• Technology Assessment

Mattis Jacobs is a research associate at the chair of Ethics in Information Technology within the Department of Informatics. His research is mainly settled in the Information Governance Technologies project. Mattis has a background in Computer Science and Philosophy (B.A., University of Münster) as well as in Philosophy of Science and Knowledge (M.A., TU Berlin). Before coming to Hamburg, Mattis worked as a Research Assistant and Junior Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT) in Berlin. Here, he participated in various TA projects for e.g. the Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB) or the TA-Swiss concerning different aspects of the digitalization.

Articles:

Jacobs, M. & Simon, J. (2022). Reexamining computer ethics in light of AI systems and AI regulation. AI and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00229-6

Jacobs, M. & Simon, J. (2022). Assigning Obligations in AI Regulation: A Discussion of Two Frameworks Proposed By the European Commission. Digital Society, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-022-00009-z

Jacobs, M., Kurtz, C., Simon, J., & Böhmann, T. (2021). Value Sensitive Design and power in socio-technical ecosystems. Internet Policy Review, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.3.1580

Jacobs, M. (2021). How Implicit Assumptions on the Nature of Trust Shape the Understanding of the Blockchain Technology. Philosophy & Technology, 34(3), 573–587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00410-x

Books:

Meidert, Ursula; Scheermesser, Mandy; Prieur, Yvonne; Hegyi, Stefan; Stockinger, Kurt; Eyyi, Gabriel; Evers-Wölk, Michaela; Jacobs, Mattis; Oertel, Britta; Becker, Heidrun (2018): Quantified Self - Schnittstelle zwischen Lifestyle und Medizin. Zürich: vdf (TA-Swiss, 67/2018). Available online at https://vdf.ch/quantified-self-schnittstelle-zwischen-lifestyle-und-medizin-e-book.html. ISBN: 978-3-7281-3892-7.

Thio, Sie Liong; Oertel, Britta; Jacobs, Mattis (2016): JuHdo. Junge Menschen und ihr Umgang mit ethischen, rechtlichen und sozialen Fragen der Leistungssteigerung durch Hirndoping. Berlin: IZT (IZT-Text, 1-2016). Available online at https://doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1017809461. ISBN: 978-3-941374-28-7.

Presentations:

"A Process Perspective on ADM Systems: Lessons for Responsibility and Risk Assessment", GOAL International AI Conference - Governance of and by Algorithms, online, April 8th, 2021 (joint presentation with Catharina Rudschies).

"Accounting for Power in Socio-Technical Ecosystems: A Grand Challange for Value Sensitive Design", International Workshop: Governing European values inside data flows, online, January 29th, 2021.

"How Implicit Assumptions on the Nature of Trust Shape our Understanding of the Blockchain-Technology", 2nd Transatlantic Conference: Data and Ethics, Universität Wien, Klosterneuburg, AT, November 23rd, 2019.

"Blockchain’s New Trust Model", Hamburg Interdisciplinary Summer School: Privacy, Fair-
ness, and Transparency, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, DE, September 17th, 2019.

"Hardcoded Historical Entitlement? Embedded Values and the Concept of Ownership in the Blockchain Technology", Blockchain, Public Trust, Law & Governance, University of Groningen, Groningen, NL, November 30th, 2018.

"Ownership and Distributive Justice in Blockchain-based Value Transfers", Data Justice Conference, Cardiff-University, Cardiff, UK, May 22nd, 2018.

Panels:

"Global Citizenship and E-Identity", Emerging Technologies and the Future of Citizenship -- Cit-Tech International Workshop, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, GER, June 13th, 2018.

Journals:

Philosophy & Technology

Conferences:

CEPE/IACAP

ETHICOMP