Responsible AI design: Plattform Lernende Systeme presents its 2025 progress report

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently experiencing unprecedented momentum. It is driving digitalisation forward and changing our working world and social processes. Since 2017, Plattform Lernende Systeme has been supporting dialogue between science, industry and civil society on the topic of AI. Its latest progress report, ‘Responsible AI Design’, contributes to the discourse on AI in terms of innovation and social policy and provides an overview of various current topics and key findings from the platform's work.

In interviews and guest articles, experts from Plattform Lernende Systeme shed light on key areas of AI research and application in Germany – for example, with regard to challenges in medical technology or development potential in the field of adaptive robotics systems and explainable AI. They also discuss how AI is changing the world of work and coexistence in a democratic society, and what framework conditions are needed to ensure international competitiveness and long-term technological sovereignty for the benefit of society.

"As a key technology, AI is central to future competitiveness – both for companies and locations. Germany should therefore leverage its strengths and invest primarily in domain-specific AI in order to expand its technological sovereignty," writes Claudia Eckert, co-chair of Plattform Lernende Systeme. Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space and also co-chair of the platform, puts it this way in the progress report: ‘We want to be at the forefront of the next generation of AI and make the necessary capacities available, in close cooperation between the federal and state governments, science and industry. A key benchmark for this is to generate ten per cent of our economic output using AI by 2030.’

Other topics covered in the progress report include the AI Act, the contribution of AI to combating the shortage of skilled workers, and the changes in society brought about by AI. The report is rounded off with the key findings of the platform's work in 2024/25.

The progress report thus outlines the major challenges in the international AI race and how Germany and Europe can responsibly exploit the existing potential of AI and ensure technological sovereignty.

The progress report is available for download (in german) free of charge.

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