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Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany and Europe must build their own AI more quickly
Germany and Europe must move faster to build their own AI technology or risk becoming dependent on outside providers, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday, according to Reuters.
Speaking at an AI conference in Berlin, Merz called digital sovereignty “a truly existential question” and said Germany must “at all costs, avoid becoming entirely dependent on third parties.”
As AI spreads across the economy, countries that do not control the technology will increasingly rely on those that do, he argued.
Germany’s ambition, he said, should be to develop and operate its own technology across the entire supply chain, from hardware to software.
Friedrich Merz acknowledged that reaching that point would require “an enormous technological and organisational effort.”
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