Wissing: AI center to develop AI test criteria
According to Federal Digital Minister Volker Wissing, the Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Kaiserslautern will work on control and testing systems for the new technology. "It's about ensuring that we end up with AI test criteria that create trust," said the FDP politician in an editorial interview with the German Press Agency in Mainz.
The center would strengthen the Kaiserslautern location. There should also be an office there that brings science and business, which use AI in practice, even closer together. "Every economic player must use AI in order to remain competitive," emphasized Wissing and also said: "If humans are replaced by a machine in sub-processes, then we must also control this machine."
In addition to Kaiserslautern, an AI center is also to be established in Berlin. There will be a showroom there where citizens can test and try out AI, explained Wissing. The center in Kaiserslautern will be more business and application-oriented. "My idea was to bring the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) a little more into play." The DFKI is also based in Kaiserslautern.
The centers are being set up by the National Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy, which now bears the shorter name "Mission AI". The whole thing is being financed by the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs, with the total project volume reportedly amounting to 32 million euros.
"We need AI," said Wissing. "If you imagine that AI is only developed abroad and we become importers of this technology, then we become fundamentally dependent." The aim must be to be sovereign in such key technologies. Because this technology is also self-optimizing and constantly improving its own performance, it is impossible to predict today what will be possible next year. "That's why we think it's wrong to regulate this technology now," said Wissing.
The aim should be to ban certain applications that are not ethically justifiable, said Wissing. As an example, he cited social scoring, i.e. a kind of evaluation of people's social behavior with the help of AI. Developers should be made responsible for developing technology in a way that respects values such as democracy, transparency and neutrality as part of a binding voluntary commitment.
The German Government, through the National Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Data Economy, is establishing two AI centers in Kaiserslautern and Berlin. The Kaiserslautern center will focus on business applications and bring science and industry closer together, emphasizing the importance of AI for remaining competitive in the digital age. The Government recognizes the necessity of digitizing various sectors, including science, and understands that AI is a key technology that should not be solely developed abroad to avoid dependency.
Source: www.dpa.com
