If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
At a glance
- The analogue and digital worlds are increasingly overlapping and merging. Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a key role in this. Applications of generative AI have made it accessible to the general public.
- AI is regarded as a basic technology for innovative products and services that increase productivity and prosperity. At the same time, it represents a challenge for democracy, e.g. with regard to the labour market, elections and cyber security.
- Competition for powerful AI has flared up and is taking place along global value and supply chains. Governments around the world are defining AI strategies and building up AI expertise. This is impressively demonstrated by the growing importance of the semiconductor industry, robotics and quantum computing.
- Cooperation between politics, business and society is needed to exploit the opportunities of AI and minimise the risks. Technology is important for maintaining a free and progressive society. Our work aims to promote a better understanding of AI technologies.)
Content
1. A digital tool for efficient data filtering
2. We want to create a better understanding of AI technology
3. Our offers and projects on the topic
4. Publications, events and media contributions on the topic
In a highly interconnected society like ours, the exchange and communication with digital information shapes the everyday life. At the same time, the everyday life itself also produces data that impacts our lives. In order for us to manage the ever growing overlap of the analogue and digital world, we need suitable tools. One suitable tool is artificial intelligence (AI).
A digital tool for efficient data filtering
In simple terms artificial intelligence can be described as an automation software. It is able to efficiently scan a multitude of different data in a specifically problem-oriented manner. It helps to distinguish important information from unimportant information and to calculate individually tailored solutions from large sets of data. There are AI systems that manage tasks independently and without human help, such as the autonomous car. Other systems show their potential in interaction with humans, such as within the medical sector in the analysis of disease patterns.
It is important to note, that AI is not a digital brain, designed to think better or faster than humans. Above all, AI is a digital tool. It helps to transfer human logic and human thinking from the analogue to the digital world and to categorise data and make recommendations based on the guidelines we as humans program into the system. Herein lies the technology’s strength, but also the risks.
We want to create a better understanding of AI technology
On this page we would like to share with you analyses, expert opinions and relevant events on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Our aim is to develop a better understanding of the AI technology and to showcase the interplay between society, politics and Artificial Intelligence. The spectrum of topics ranges from the innovative power of AI, to questions of law, to fundamental ethical issues.
We at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung are convinced that technology in general, and Artificial Intelligence in particular, is an essential element in maintaining a free and progressive society. Along our Christian democratic values, our view of the technology focuses on the human being in the center.
Our offers and projects on the topic
Interactive web publication
With our publication “AI_Understanding a Technology_Trusting a Technology”, we would like to present an interactive publication answering general questions regarding AI, including interesting facts from a wide range of disciplines that come into play when talking about the essential functions of this technology. In addition to the presentation below, you can also find the pdf version of the publication.
AI_Understanding a Technology_Trusting a Technology
indd.adobe.com
Selected publication projects
Beyond individual publications on specific aspects of artificial intelligence, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has carried out a number of different publication projects on the topic, a selection of which we present here.
Web3 and Blockchain
The Internet is constantly evolving: from Web1 to Web2 to Web3. Web1 was the static internet, Web2 brought social networks and interactivity, and Web3 could bring more security, privacy and user autonomy. The basis of Web3 is blockchain technology, which used decentralised structures to create innovations such as smart contracts, tokens, cryptocurrencies and digital currencies. For the development of artificial intelligence, it could also contribute to greater data protection and promote digital sovereignty. Below you will find basic studies and insights into specific fields of application.
Quantum computing and its importance for society
Whether economically or in a societal context, quantum computing has great potential. The technology of quantum computers represents a significant technical advance. Our publications on this groundbreaking future technology deal with the potentials of quantum computers, their fundamentals and possible applications.
Artificial intelligence and human rights
With a three-part publication series, we want to show that artificial intelligence (AI) not only drives the productivity of an economy, but also empowers individuals to claim and assert their own rights. Through two expert interviews and an interactive web publication, we look at the legal implications, the design aspect of human-machine interaction and provide examples of how AI is strengthening human rights at this stage of development.
The metaverse
Inspired by the science fiction novel "Snow Crash", the term metaverse describes on the one hand technological applications that make it possible to virtually experience and walk through 3D worlds. On the other hand, it is linked to the assumption that a new and possibly the final stage of digitalisation has been introduced. The technologies of the metaverse are already being used today, e.g. in video games. On a separate overview page, we explain which other application scenarios already exist, which are conceivable in the future and what requirements this entails for the digital infrastructure.
Publications to the topic
Adobe Stock / Artlana; generiert mit KI
AI and Elections: New dynamics of digital democracy in Germany
Opportunities and risks for our democratic order through AI in the super election year 2024
Adobe Stock / Korawan; generiert mit KI
Greater capacity for action for public administration with artificial intelligence
Strengthening the future viability of the administration through practical AI expertise, simplified regulatory compliance and European AI in critical areas
Adobe Stock /Shozib
Tools for ‘smart’ urban development: Urban Digital Twins
Organising Smart City as a platform: realistic digital images of a ‘city section’, for the evaluation and simulation of urban situations or processes
Platzhalter für eine Meinung, die man nicht hat
Warum das KI-generierte Bild „All Eyes on Rafah“ viral gegangen ist
KAS
Revolution oder Risiko?
Wie KI den Wahlkampf verändert und was die Wählerinnen und Wähler nicht wissen.
Technologiefähige Demokratie
Was KI zu einer effizienten Staats- und Verwaltungsstruktur beitragen kann
Interview: „Nicht die Innovationskraft beschneiden!“
Über Chancen und Risiken von KI für Unternehmen und Arbeitnehmer
Event Reports on the topic
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung/Tina Flemming
Artificial intelligence as a driver of innovation in government and society
Hi Ai - the AI congress for everyone
Forum Künstliche Intelligenz
Veranstaltungsbericht zum internen Workshop mit dem KAS Fellow 2020/21 Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
Das "C" in KI. Technologie für die Gesellschaft
Ein Gespräch mit Nadine Schön, Jonas Andrulis und Armin Nassehi
Gerrit Wilcke und Gottfried Schwarz (v.l.n.r)
kas-kompakt "Künstliche Intelligenz: Chancen und Risiken"
Online-Veranstaltung mit Jason Chumtong und Wiebke Winter
Constanze Brinckmann / Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Die Zukunft von KI gestalten
Über die Analyse der Potenziale und Schwächen Europas im Bereich KI
KAS
KI-Expertise für den Bundestag
Enquete-Kommission zu Künstlicher Intelligenz legt Abschlussbericht vor
Bild von Gerd Altmann auf Pixabay
Bundestagsabgeordnete Ronja Kemmer, Beauftragte der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion für Künstliche Intelli...
Interview und Diskussion zur politischen Förderung und Steuerung von Zukunftstechnologien und zur Umsetzung eines neu gedachten Digitalministeriums. Eine Maßnahme der digitalen Pol...
Samuel Mann / flickr / CC BY 2.0
Künstliche Intelligenz an der Schule?
Bericht zum digitalen Fachgespräch "KI an der Schule - Zwischen individualisiertem Lernen und totaler Überwachung"
PBF Thüringen KAS
Autonomes Fahren - die Mobilität der Zukunft?
Veranstaltungsbericht Thüringer Mobilitätsgespräch
Christian Thiel
Politikempfehlungen für KI
Mitglieder der Enquete-Kommission diskutieren aktuellen Arbeitsstand
Media library
