Jakob is the Director of Science & Technology Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI). His academic research focuses on how organizations can design and use AI systems in ways that are ethical, legal, and safe. Jakob has published extensively in the fields of AI auditing, and his work has been featured in journals like Nature Machine Intelligence, Science and Engineering Ethics, and Minds and Machines.
Jakob holds a PhD from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Prior to joining TBI, Jakob has been a specialist consultant working within McKinsey & Company’s Risk and Resilience practice, a visiting scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), and a research fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI).