Beyond the obvious: Regulated into the offside

Artificial intelligence (AI) can make work more productive, enable new business models and fundamentally change companies. But if you want to take advantage of the opportunities of this new technological era, you also have to allow for changes.

This is the lesson from previous economic upheavals - from the steam engine to information technology. Societies that openly embraced the new and allowed its application to be as broad as possible - despite the short-term negative consequences for old companies and jobs - benefited disproportionately.

Which leads to the question of how Germany and the EU are positioned when it comes to AI? Will we be prepared to give the new technology the space to develop or will the impulse to regulate and slow down prevail?

Daniel Stelter discusses what the lessons from previous technological leaps mean for the AI ​​revolution with the economic historian Dr. Werner Plumpe, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (1999 – 2022).

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Press release A third use AI at least once a week - from code to kitchen (April 28, 2026) according to a population survey by the digital association Bitkom: https://t1p.de/dmtns