Last week, the second edition of the German Standardization Roadmap Artificial Intelligence (AI) was handed over to Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck at the Digital Summit held in Berlin. What may have appeared initially to be a peripheral issue for the summit participants turned out to be, in fact, a headline topic throughout the week of digital policy events in the capital city.
Discussions about the societal consequences of algorithmic decision-making systems are omnipresent. A growing number of guidelines for the ethical development of so-called artificial intelligence (AI) have been put forward by…