Tech Experts Are Calling for an AI Moratorium
But Is It a Solution? The Future of Life Institute has recently made waves with its Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter: “We call on all AI labs to …
No Cyber Resilience, No Economic Resilience
When Russia attacked Ukraine starting in late February 2022, it did so not only with bombs, missiles, and tanks but also with hackers. Massive cyberattacks were carried out on Ukraine’s …
A Transatlantic Approach to Global Technology Standards Competition with China?
Technology Standards as a New Frontier Concerns over China’s growing capabilities in new and emerging technologies are intensifying global competition with traditional technology heavyweights like the United States. American policymakers …
Economics of Cybersecurity
This article was originally published in German at 49security. The digitization of government agencies is still sluggish. Nevertheless, the questions of who is responsible for protection in cyberspace and where …
AI Regulatory Sandboxes
Germany lagging behind others in Europe According to its Coalition Treaty, the German government wants to “promote […] Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum technologies, cybersecurity, distributed ledger technology (DLT), robotics and …
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Do We Need a Digital Bretton Woods?
The development of the Internet, and thus of the digital world, has had a transformative effect on the global economy. The transatlantic economy has been at the forefront of that …
Anne Goldmann, Visiting Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Anne Goldmann as an NRW Fellow at AGI from March to May 2022. She is a research and teaching assistant at the chair of “Ethics …
EU Data Governance Act Will Set New Standards for Public Data Access
Government institutions hold a wealth of information. Wouldn’t it be beneficial if everyone had fair access to this trove—for instance, for research to develop new vaccines or to operate driverless …
Challenges for the German Healthcare System in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a spotlight on two major weaknesses of the German healthcare system: First, the glaring lack of digitization, leading to a lack of data and prevention …
The Trade Agenda for the 46th U.S. President –Advancing Global Economic Order?
As Joe Biden takes office as the 46th President of the United States the country is at a turning point in its trade policy, one where rules are likely to …
Acting Digitally: The EU Rewrites Its Internet Rules
Last week the European Commission put forward two sweeping proposals to overhaul the European Union’s rules governing the behavior of large Internet companies: the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the …
Europe’s Digital Autonomy and Potentials of a U.S.-German Alignment toward China
Download Publication A concerted response to China’s growing digital power is one of the most critical policy issues requiring U.S.-German coordination during the Biden administration. While approaches to cybersecurity are …
China Plans for the Future
After four days of deliberation in late October, the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (commonly known as CCP, but officially the Communist Party of China or CPC) issued …
Corona-Warn-App and Germany’s Efforts to Tame COVID-19
Germany has been lauded as one of the world’s leading countries with regard to the tackling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first wave of this crisis, Germany managed to …
