Jascha Bareis, Dr.
Dr. Jascha Bareis is Senior Researcher at the Université de Fribourg, Human-IST institute. As a political scientist, he studies the intersection of hypes, (civilian and military) AI, tech oligarchy and political communication. Other areas of expertise include technology assessment, trust in technology and democratic theory.
In cooperation with the HIIG, he investigated together with research leader Dr. Thomas Christian Bächle the realities and normative dimensions around Artificial Intelligence and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
He holds a Dr. phil. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 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.
Journal articles and conference proceedings (5)
Bareis, J. (2024). The trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie trust and AI together. Big Data & Society, 11(2). 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). 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 (2)
Bächle, T. C., & Bareis, J. (Eds.) (2025). The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529237191 Publication details
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
Book contributions and chapters (2)
Bächle, T. C., & Bareis, J. (2025). The realities of autonomous weapons: Hedging a hybrid space of fact and fiction. In T. C. Bächle, & J. Bareis (Eds.), (pp. 1-32) Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press. DOI: doi.org/10.51952/9781529237191.ch001 Publication details
Ruschemeier, H., & Bareis, J. (2025). Searching for Harmonised Rules: Understanding the Paradigms, Provisions, and Pressing Issues in the Final EU AI Act. In R. Gsenger, Digital Decade: How the EU Shapes Digitalisation Research (pp. 41–94). Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos. Publication details
Other publications (9)
Belsunces Gonçalves, A., & Bareis, J. (2025). Expanding Hype Literacy to Protect Democracy. Tech Policy Press. Publication details
Bareis J., & Belsunces Gonçalves, A. (2025). Tech-Hypes führen in die Cyber-Dystopie. JACOBIN Magazin. Publication details
Belsunces Gonçalves, A. & Bareis, J. (2025). Más allá de las burbujas tecnológicas: entender el hype para proteger la democracia. El Salto. Publication details
Belsunces Gonçalves, A. & Bareis, J. (2025). Expandindo a alfabetização do hype para proteger a democracia. JACOBINA. 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 (23)
TA and Dysfunctional Democracy: Bridging Crisis through a Politics of Hype
Ask me anything: How Chat-GPT got hyped into being
On the production of knowledge and trust authority of LLMs through hype
The politics of AI ethics: The plucked AI Act
On the Production of Knowledge and Trust Authority of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Technology Hypes: How to deal with inappropriate exaggeration?
On Technological Seduction: Hermeneutical Deconstruction of Tech Hype
Einführung in die KI: Chancen und Risiken
“Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies
On Technological Seduction: A Tentative Systematization Of AI Solutionism
Strategische Kommunikation ohne Strateg:innen? – Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz Regierungskommunikation?
Do Politics with Fiction: Circulating Imaginaries of Military AI
“Autonomy” and “autonomous weapon systems” as a geopolitical signifiers: AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies
“Autonomous Weapons” as a geopolitical signifier: Analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies’
Zwischen Agenda, Zwang und Widerspruch. Der liberale Staat und der Fall KI
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 normative problem between fact and fiction]
Sociotechnical weapons: AI myths as national power play
Mythen und Metaphern der Automatisierung – eine Herausforderung für zwischenstaatliche Regulierung [Myths and metaphors of automatization – a challenge for intergovernmental regulation]
International Conference on AI and Foreign Studies
Collective swarms competing with singular battle machines: National strategic discourses around military AI
Talking AI into Being: The Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and their Performative Politics
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].
Organisation of events (1)
10.07.2025. Bristol Digital Futures Institute, Bristol, United Kingdom. Co-Organised by: Bristol Digital Futures Institute (International)
Thomas Christian Bächle, Jascha Bareis
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Former associated researcher: The evolving digital society
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