CascadiaPrime Cognition - Germany AI Policy Rollout

Germany does not at present have an AI Policy and it's political, education and business institutions are struggling to catch up with the global front runners. Cultural issues may prevent timely strategy execution. Germany's central role in the European Union suggests that this policy vacuum is problematic for other EU members. The players are "competing in time".

The Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness ranking - captures the current capacity of OECD governments to absorb - and exploit - the innovative potential of AI - Germany ranks # 13   The Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness ranking    Future of Life - Captures National and International AI Strategies - by Country   National and International AI Strategies: A Global Landscape - See Germany    Introduction and Overview   Chancellor Angela Merkel: "There is a very urgent need to develop the Digital Single Market as swiftly as possible" (September 29, 2017)      Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure      Federal Government adopts action plan on automated driving      Federal Ministry of of Education and Research      Federal Ministry of of Defence      The Federal Government      Lander Research Institutions    Government recognized German institutions that might take leadership roles in German AI Policy Rollout German Research Foundation   The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Twitter: @DFKI      German Research Foundation    Other Key German Institutions   Wiki: German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)      Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems      Fraunhofre IPK - Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology      Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI): German Computer Vision Research Groups and Companies    German AI Landscape   Asgard: The German AI Startup Landscape (February 2017)      German Education and Research in 2017 - see Figure 10 (AI investment is small compared with other areas)      The Robotics & Automation Industry in Germany    German AI Policy News   Inside Amazon’s German AI research program (May 24, 2019)      Why Germans will be left behind in Artificial Intelligence (October 4, 2018)      German AI-Strategy Paper in English (July 26, 2018)      Cybernetic Revolution: Artificial intelligence will change lives and work as much as electricity once did. Europe needs the best minds for this. (March 15, 2018)      Reuters: German military has no plans to acquire robot weapons - general (February 15, 2018)      Bitkom: Digitalization to wipe out millions of jobs in Germany (February 2, 2018)      Reuters: Amazon backs German artificial intelligence research hub (artificial intelligence research center in the German university city of Tuebingen)(October 23 2017)      ai Germany.com      Chancellor Angela Merkel: "There is a very urgent need to develop the Digital Single Market as swiftly as possible" (September 29, 2017)      Deutsche Welle - AI News      ARD Hauptstadtstudio Twitter: Report from Berlin @ ARD_BaB    German AI Policy - Other related sources of policy insight   McKinsey: Smartening up with Artificial Intelligence (April 2017)    German AI Policy - Policy Leaders   Under Construction    Top