By 2029, reducing the cost of bureaucracy by 25%, offering more public services online and using artificial intelligence in the government and courts are some projects that have agreed for the last week of Chancellor Frederick Merz.
Integration in everyday use AI is an online platform to bundle information on export rules and credit options for export-based businesses in plans, and intensifies visa processing using AI to review the applicants’ documents.
“Modernization agenda, as” Digitalization Minister Carrston Wildberger, is called, comes on the heels of the “high-tech agenda” with a similar title. In July, the “High-Tech Agenda”, presented by Dorothy Bär, research, technology and space, exposes AI as one of the six major technologies, which the government will promote with biotechnology and microelectronics.
AI minister makes his debut
The government’s recent AI push is a more visual example, the so -called veer of the Minister of State for Culture and Media Wolfram Weimar for the AI avatar. Women can speak 100 languages and “Fair AI, which protects creativity and strengthens our democratic public sector, is promised to be an example. Its purpose is not only easier to reach wide audiences on social media, but therefore to save time in the ministry, for example, training videos that can be made quickly and remained.
Holgar Hos, a professor at AIAI’s Humbold Foundation at Rwth Aachen University, does not believe that this technique is well understood that they are in power that promises fair and responsible use of AI.
In 2023, a group of Humbolt professors of AI, prominent researchers in the field of prominent researchers in Germany met with policy makers to prepare a list of suggestions for moral and useful AI in the government. This included the recommendation that the government should mainly be directed by science in making its decisions, not in business.
“A government has a moral duty to follow the competent advice. You cannot only follow the advice from the industry, which often contains selfishness in some consequences,” Hos said.
At the same time, a specialist in machine learning takes it as a good sign that the Ministry of Wildbergers and Digitalization has a main mission to improve Germany’s digital infrastructure.
For its share, Wildberger has reported that Germany leaves the risk disappointingly if it does not embrace AI much faster.
“AI is the key to future development, and AI is in full swing. It will change the world more – and is already doing it – compared to any technology,” he said. Spark Media group. “If we do not use AI widely, we risk more jobs if we use it bravery and responsibly.”
Therefore AI is widely used at the state and local level. For example, in the southern state of Baden-Vurtemberg, bees have been made public in a fleet of proposals: from AI-reading to a government chatbot in the city of Ludwigsburg. The state government therefore avoids its use of a US-based openi-based openi-based chat, to adapt “public administration”.
Generative AI Hype is already wandering
So the questions are, in both traditional and social media, whether the government’s government is buying generic AI in publicity at the cost of more practice applications. The tech policy news site network policy accused the government of continuing Germany’s reputation to be behind time in the digital world. “The government is committing suicide once again” Liberal AI HypeAs it “decreases elsewhere,” he wrote.
In fact, companies and governments around the world have already collided against the boundaries of chat and Dal-E, AI generators, which provides more general and sometimes misinformation. Experts like Hos believe that if the use of AI in the government has positive results for citizens, the energy should be directed towards the procedure option option through AI and problem-specific models.
The computer scientist said, “This is much more help than asking a question. You can use AI to identify where bureaucratic procedures can be customized,” to save time and resources for all, the computer scientist said. This included combating issues such as staff shortage as Germany experiences demographic decline. The aging population provides less and less people who want to work in public administration, especially when working in the industry can come up with high awards.
He said that this process was indispensable in some ways. “I predict that in 10 years, AI technology wants to be used for import tasks at all public authorities and government levels.”
Some AI models of these types are already in use in Germany, ie local and municipal levels. The city of Cologne has a pilot project to use AI for better city plan and traffic management, while Munich is using it to make better waste collection routines. In Heidelberg, it is being tested in hospitals for early detection of diseases.
However, legal scholars and moralists are still questioning whether the government’s applying AI at all levels is being done with adequate oversight and is being predictable for the results of mistakes, when it comes to use in health systems, judicial systems and immigration processes.
“AI can serve as a tool, for example, in preliminary examinations or standard cases,” Wrote by Jana Christian Swoboda, a student of law on the legal news site LTO. “However, human review is necessary, especially in unusual cases or highly relevant cases for fundamental rights.”
Open AI/SAP deal questions German tech freedom
Germany has strict data protection regulation, which is in particular, applied to the implementation of the AI system in the public sector. Personal data cannot be stored for longer than necessary and should be preserved against unauthorized access, loss or destruction. Data themes have the right to request information about what data has been collected about them and for what purpose, and they have the right to remove or correct the data collected illegally.
Hoses warned that despite the promises of “sovereign” through the German-based cloud, a deal was announced last week, which is a legendary company of Openai and Germany’s SAP software, “we cannot fully rely on actors” and does not want to reach the data generated by Open-SAP.
“This includes public funds that should not be spent on suspected American technology, but should be spent on building the European Union and German AI capabilities,” they argued.
If, the minister announces as a “high-tech agenda” of Bär, Germany tries to become a leader in AI, integrates it in homes, healthcare and even justice administration, experts take care that independence is important.
Edited by Reena Goldenburg
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