Artificial Intelligence - Wissing and Schmitt open new AI-Center
Federal Digital Minister Volker Wissing and Rhineland-Palatinate Economic Minister Daniela Schmitt (both FDP) have opened a new center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Kaiserslautern. The AI Innovation and Quality Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is part of the initiative "Mission AI" and the first of two planned centers in Germany with which the Federal Government aims to drive the "deployment of trustworthy AI."
"AI helps us to process things much faster, but at the same time, we must ensure that our data regulations and values are respected," emphasized Wissing. "We must ensure that AI supports us neutrally and does not deceive us. These things are not easy to check for everyone. We are creating centers that have this expertise."
Profit from knowledge transfer
Schmitt named Kaiserslautern with the DFKI as the "central location for AI in Germany." She was particularly pleased that Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the two new, federally funded AI centers being hosted in the country. "Our medium-sized companies in the state will particularly benefit from knowledge transfer and the development of corresponding applications."
The AI Center is being run jointly by the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech and the DFKI. A particular focus is on developing testing procedures for AI applications to strengthen trust in the technology. Consulting and testing support will be supplemented by workshops.
Initial focus on the use of AI in the healthcare sector
The focus of the center is initially on the use of AI in the healthcare sector, as stated – also due to the presence of research institutions and companies from medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology in the region. The DFKI is supposed to develop tools for evaluating the quality of medical AI systems and improving them.
- The new AI Innovation and Quality Center in Kaiserslautern is housed within the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), a renowned institution located in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate state.
- Volker Wissing, the Federal Digital Minister, highlighted the importance of maintaining data regulations and values while leveraging AI for faster processing, emphasizing the need to ensure AI's neutrality and trustworthiness.
- Daniela Schmitt, Rhineland-Palatinate's Economic Minister and a member of the FDP, recognized Kaiserslautern as the central hub for AI in Germany due to its close association with the DFKI.
- The collaboration between acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering, and the DFKI will drive the development of testing procedures for AI applications in an effort to strengthen trust in the technology.
- Located in Kaiserslautern, the AI Center aims to initially focus on the healthcare sector, utilizing resources from local research institutions and companies in medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology to develop tools for evaluating and improving the quality of medical AI systems.
- Rhineland-Palatinate is one of two German states to host federally funded AI centers as part of the Federal Government's "Mission AI" initiative, which aims to drive the deployment of trustworthy AI in the country.
