VITA
Jascha Bareis
I am a Political scientist and Science & Technology Studies (STS) scholar. My research unfolds at the intersection of techno futures, civil & military AI, and political communication.
Research Vita
Since 2025, I am a senior researcher at the Université de Fribourg, working at the HUMAN-IST institute.
I joined Prof. Anna Jobin and her group Social Studies of Algorithms, Internet & Society to research the performativity of AI.
I am co-founder of the Hype studies group, an emergent, transdisciplinary research arena aimed to investigate hype as a powerful and pervasive phenomenon.
Between Jan. 2020 and Dec. 2025, I worked as scientific staff at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe, research group "Digital technologies and societal change" (DigIT). Here I completed my PhD and worked on the following projects:
- Uncontrollable Artificial Intelligence: An existential risk?
- Governance von und durch Algorithmen (GOAL)
- Social Trust in Learning Systems
- Trust through explainability in verifiable online voting systems
Between 2018 and 2025 I was an associate Researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and worked on the projects:
Professional Education
- PhD Thesis: National Tech Rhetoric in a Global AI Race. Smart Futures, Public Goods and Fierce Geopolitics.
- M.A. Political Theory
- B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Honours Degree
Academic Visits
Publications
- Towards Mapping and Defining Critical Hype Studies: Multidisciplinary Insights and Future Directions
- AI going rogue? An integrative narrative review of the tacit assumptions underlying existential AI-risks
- Big Data Discourses | Ask Me Anything! ◕‿◕ - How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being
- The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (eds.)
- The Realities of Autonomous Weapons: Hedging a Hybrid Space of Fact and Fiction
- National Tech Rhetoric in a Global AI Race. Smart Futures, Public Goods and Fierce Geopolitics
- Searching for Harmonised Rules: Understanding the Paradigms, Provisions, and Pressing Issues in the Final EU AI Act
- Normative Challenges of Risk Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
- The trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie trust and AI together
- Technology hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising
- Technology hypes: Practices, approaches and assessments
- “Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play
- Tackling problems, harvesting benefits: A systematic review of the regulatory debate around AI
- Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics
Teaching
- Introduction to AI and LLMs in the Academic Context
- Algocracy - the Political Rule of Algorithms (MA STS & MA Sociology)
- Critical issues in AI - Perspectives from Informatics and Social Sciences
Peer Review Records
Supervised Thesis
- Scientific authority contested: Chatbots invading Academia and Teaching.
- Visions of AI and sustainability in political strategy papers in Germany and Japan.
- ChatGPT als Medium kollektiver Ordnungsbildung? Eine diskursanalytische Betrachtung im Licht von Hartmut Rosas Beschleunigungstheorie.