M. Sc. Jannik Zeiser

Position

Visiting Researchers

Institute of Philosophy

Profile

Jannik Zeiser studied philosophy and biology at the University Osnabrück. He completed his dual bachelor's degree with a thesis about responsibility in crash scenarios with autonomous vehicles. Thereafter, he studied Cognitive Science with a focus on philosophy and artificial intelligence. He joined an experimental study project about the acceptance of self-driving cars and wrote his master thesis about the question in which sense robot systems can be said to have agency.

Currently, Jannik Zeiser is a research assistant at the Leibniz University Hannover. He works in the interdisciplinary project "Bias and Discrimination in Big Data and Algorithmic Processing - BIAS" and is focussing his research on challenges posed by algorithmic decision making and data processing.

Research Focus

Philosophy and ethics of artificial intelligence

Algorithmic bias and its moral and epistemic implications

The concept of discrimination

Publications

2019

Moral judgements on the actions of self-driving cars and human drivers in dilemma siuations from different perspectives, Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2415 (with Kallioinen, N.; Pershina, M.; Nezami, N.; Stepan, A.; Pipa, G. & König, P.).

Talks

13/11/20 "Should We Believe the Algorithm? Fairness, Epistemic Responsibility and Moral Encroachment" Copenhagen Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness