Germany and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act – AICGS

Dr. Axel Spies is a German attorney (Rechtsanwalt) in Washington, DC, and co-publisher of the German journals Multi-Media-Recht (MMR) and Zeitschrift für Datenschutz (ZD). The impact of the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) proposed by the European Commission, and currently debated at the European Parliament (EP), has been underestimated in the United States. With approximately 3,000 amendments that must be reconciled, the AIA represents the first attempt to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) by a uniform law from cradle to grave. The AIA focuses on the providers of AI services that put them on the market or use them for their own purposes. Germany is actively contributing to the debate: AI is mentioned in the federal government's Coalition Treaty as a "digital key technology" and a European AIA is generally supported.