Das Digitalministerium ist eine Scheinlösung. Die Probleme liegen viel tiefer. Nur mit umfassenden strukturellen Reformen wird Deutschlands Digitalpolitik zukünftig liefern können. (Thread 1/14) Digitale Themen werden im Bundestagswahlkampf soviel Aufmerksamkeit wie nie zuvor bekommen. Die Pandemie hat unsere Abhängigkeit von digitalen Infrastrukturen in der Breite deutlich gemacht und die Defizite nochmal schonungslos offen gelegt. (2)

"Strategic Autonomy" is a nice idea and a good tallking point. Reality is that the EU & its memeber states are unprepared to implement it regarding geopolitical competition in #technology. Just compare EU strategic thinking to the report by @AiCommission (Thread 1/21) There is just no gov report to be found in Europe reflecting this kind of depth of understanding of #AI combined with breadth of implications it covers. It helps if you can bring together 15 leading experts from academia, tech and government and give them serious support. (2)

A few thoughts on the leaked EU Commission's White Paper on a European Approach towards #AI
(thanks to @F_Kaltheuner for pointing it my way)

THREAD 👇 The white paper references the Commission's ongoing activities on #AI. But the main thrust is the analysis of different regulatory options to make good on @vonderleyen pledge to present legislation on #AI within the first 100 days in office.

Open influence campaigns by foreign governments are really hard. Not surprising. But we have the data to back this up. Based on analysis of this tweet by US president @realDonaldTrump (Thread)

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First the facts. Crime rates are actually falling in Germany. So we have classified @realDonaldTrump Tweet as fabricated content - a completely made up story without any basis in fact (1) spiegel.de/panorama/justi…