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Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Strategie Künstliche Intelligenz der Bundesregierung

Record DE-02 · Bundestag Drucksache 19/5880

Issued by
Federal Government of Germany (Federal Cabinet)
Jurisdiction
Germany
Level · region
National · Europe
Published / adopted
2018-11-15
Last updated
2020-12-02
Language
German
Official identifier
Bundestag Drucksache 19/5880

Summary

Strategy of the German Federal Government for AI research, transfer to industry, skills and use, backed by about EUR 3 billion of federal funding to 2025. Its three equal aims are making Germany and Europe a leading AI location, responsible and public-interest-oriented development and use of AI, and embedding AI ethically, legally, culturally and institutionally in society. It commits to review the legal framework for gaps in algorithmic and AI-based decisions, to examine how AI systems can be made transparent, traceable and verifiable, and to examine state bodies and private testing institutions to oversee algorithmic decisions, with audit and impact-assessment standards.

Language

English translation by Federal Government of Germany (Federal Ministries of Education and Research, for Economic Affairs and Energy, and of Labour and Social Affairs) Open it. The German text is authoritative.

Safety topics

evaluation & testingtransparency & labellingresearch prioritiespublic-sector useinternational cooperation

Scope

Borderline scope Mainly an AI research, industry and skills strategy with safety content in its regulatory, standards and security sections; the existing scope_note is appropriate.

Status notes

Prepared under the joint lead of the Federal Ministries of Education and Research, for Economic Affairs and Energy, and of Labour and Social Affairs after a nationwide online consultation, on the basis of key points the Federal Cabinet adopted on 18 July 2018. The cabinet decided the strategy on 15 November 2018; it was transmitted to the Bundesrat (Drucksache 597/18) and the Bundestag (Drucksache 19/5880). Its other governance measures include an ethics by, in and for design approach, an aim of obliging hardware and software makers to follow security by design, raising the security of AI systems against attacks, research on detecting manipulated or automatically generated content, a German AI observatory, and a roadmap on AI norms and standards with DIN, including standardised classifications of the risks associated with AI. It plans to take up the recommendations of the Data Ethics Commission and to seek common guidelines in the OECD, G7, G20 and the United Nations. The cabinet adopted an update (Fortschreibung 2020) on 2 December 2020, which raised planned federal funding to 2025 from three to five billion euros and puts new weight on pandemic response, sustainability, environmental and climate protection, and international and European networking.

Sources

Open the official source https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/058/1905880.pdf

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 20:42:41 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/_runs/2026-10-16-discover-leads-2018/C004/2026-10-16/official.pdf
Retrieved 2026-10-16 12:18:43 UTC
SHA-256 b24f5db947d9678cd75116a973c31c375a2c482e0c79403cb757db37cb9ceb9f

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched
Stored and read in this run: Bundestag printed paper 19/5880 (dserver.bundestag.de, 48 pages), the full German text of the strategy with its aims, funding and measures; Bundesrat printed paper 597/18 (dserver.bundestag.de), whose cover letter of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy dated 15 November 2018 states that the Federal Cabinet adopted the strategy that day and that it is distributed as Bundestag printed paper 19/5880 (the Bundestag paper's own cover is set in an encoded font); the Federal Government's English text 'Artificial Intelligence Strategy', Status: November 2018 (ki-strategie-deutschland.de); the 2020 update, 'Fortschreibung 2020', Stand: Dezember 2020 (ki-strategie-deutschland.de); and the Federal Government's notice of Wednesday 2 December 2020 that the cabinet adopted the update and raised funding to 2025 from three to five billion euros (bundesregierung.de). All three hosts are recorded as official for DE. The title is the Federal Government's own English title; the summary follows the German text.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 7 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.

History

  1. 2026-10-17verification.level: C → A — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-17scope_note: Mainly a national strategy for AI research, transfer to industry, skills and fun → Mainly an AI research, industry and skills strategy with safety content in its r — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 (recheck), candidate DE-022026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-16Added to the register — found in pipeline run 2026-10-16-discover-leads-2018, candidate C004 (DE/executive)2026-10-16-discover-leads-2018 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Citation

Federal Government of Germany (Federal Cabinet). Artificial Intelligence Strategy [Bundestag Drucksache 19/5880]. 2018-11-15. https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/058/1905880.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/_runs/2026-10-16-discover-leads-2018/C004/2026-10-16/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-16 12:18:43 UTC, SHA-256 b24f5db947d9678cd75116a973c31c375a2c482e0c79403cb757db37cb9ceb9f. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record DE-02.

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