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Simon Merz

I am a PhD candidate in the doctoral program of the Wittenberg-Center of Global Ethics (WCGE) “Ethics and Responsible Leadership in Business” supervised by Prof. Philipp Schreck. My research focuses on the attribution of responsibility for decisions made in human-AI collaboration that I analyze empirically. I have an academic background in business administration and philosophy.

Publications:

Merz, Simon; Shollo, Arisa; and Hopf, Konstantin, "Procedural Justice and The Limits Of Explanations In Human-AI Decision-Making" (2026). ECIS 2026 Proceedings. 3. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2026/ai_anthro/ai_anthro/3   

Brodeur, Abel, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, Juan P. Aparicio, Derek Mikola, Bruno Barbarioli, Rohan Alexander et al. "AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, no. 22 (2026): e2524747123.

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