The western German state of Baden-Württemberg will be the first in Germany to use an AI system to alleviate the burden on staff and ease citizens’ access to administrative services, the organization behind the initiative announced on Thursday.
The system, F13, was developed primarily by the Heidelberg-based AI start-up Aleph Alpha, which has been touted as a German response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, though aimed at government, administration and industry in particular.
F13 is to be made available for use by other public administrations in Germany from September, GovTech Campus Deutschland said. The organization is a public/private partnership to produce and advance innovative technologies in the public sector.
Baden-Württemberg’s Interior Minister Thomas Strobl said that with F13, documents could be analysed more quickly, applications processed automatically and complex data evaluated efficiently.
He said it was important that the AI technologies being used adhere to ethical principles. “We are not relying on China or America; instead, we are finding our own European way,” he said.
Data protection
The service will be operated on computers in Germany, ensuring that sensitive data is not sent overseas but processed domestically. The hosting service provider is the company STACKIT, which belongs to the Schwarz Group – the owner of retail giants Lidl and Kaufland.
Last November, the Schwarz Group, together with the Bosch Group and venture capital firm Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI), announced an investment of €500 million ($542 million) in Aleph Alpha.
Jonas Andrulis, chief executive of Aleph Alpha, said F13 fulfilled the promise of sovereign AI.
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