SCIoI Alumni

Mattis Jacobs

Doctoral Researcher

Philosophy

TU Berlin

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Mattis Jacobs

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Mattis Jacobs focused on research at the intersection of computer science, ethics, and philosophy of technology. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Computer Science at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and his M.A. in Philosophy of Science and Knowledge at Technische Universität Berlin. In his PhD project, conducted at the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg, he addressed challenges for accounting for ethical principles and values in the design of technical artifacts which are part of larger socio-technical systems. At SCIoI, Mattis worked on project 19, where he investigates questions relating to technology development in accordance with ethical values and principles and research ethics in basic research. Furthermore, Mattis was a member of SCIoI’s Ethical Responsibility Committee.

Projects

Mattis Jacobs is member of Project 19.

Publications +

Burema, D., Jacobs, M., & Rozborski, F. (2023). Elusive technologies, elusive responsibilities: on the perceived responsibility of basic AI researchers. AI and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00358-6

Burema, D., Debowski-Weimann, N., Janowski, A. V., Grabowski, J., Maftei, M., Jacobs, M., Smagt, P. V. D., & Benbouzid, D. (2023). A sector-based approach to AI ethics: Understanding ethical issues of AI-related incidents within their sectoral context. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’23). https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604680

Srivastava, A., Rastogi, A., Rao, A., Shoeb, A. A. M., Abid, A., Fisch, A., Brown, A. R., Santoro, A., Gupta, A., Garriga-Alonso, A., Kluska, A., Lewkowycz, A., Agarwal, A., Power, A., Ray, A., Warstadt, A., Kocurek, A. W., Safaya, A., Tazarv, A., … Wu, Z. (2022). Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04615

Scientific Talks +

Thursday Morning Talk - Dafna Burema; Mattis Jacobs (Science of Intelligence), “Workshop: Discussing ethically problematic “incidents” of AI systems”

Public Engagement +

For the public - Panel Discussion with Dafna Burema, Mattis Jacobs, and Jonas Frenkel, “Artificial Intelligence: Examples of AI gone wrong and Ethical Questions”