The Free State of Saxony is providing new impetus in the field of artificial intelligence - the 3rd AI Congress taking place in Chemnitz on April 16 and 17, 2024 is the current flagship event. At a preliminary press conference, Minister of State Oliver Schenk and Minister of Justice Katja Meier, together with Dr. Martin Voigt from elevait GmbH & Co KG, presented the ambitious plans for the congress and future digital ethics.
Oliver Schenk announced that over 100 submissions had been received from Saxony for the 3rd AI Congress, of which 25 companies will be given the opportunity to present their innovations to a broad audience. He also underlined the importance of the AI Dialogue, which was held with a total of seven events in Saxony. With a view to the great economic potential, Schenk emphasized that AI technologies could play a key role in increasing the gross domestic product. The aim of the dialog is to overcome existing restraints and aim for a gain of up to 10 percent of GDP if around 50 percent of companies use generative AI. He made it clear that data protection can also be seen as a treasure trove of data that makes it possible to train valuable AI systems - a necessary prerequisite to avoid historical distortions such as those caused by missing GDR data and to ensure a diverse data basis. According to Schenk, only training data from the WDR archive is currently available for the GDR.
