All experts agree that artificial intelligence will drastically change our world in the coming years. But although AI applications have long penetrated everyday life and the world of work, consumers still have a lot of knowledge gaps, misjudgments and unanswered questions.
The project aims to remedy this KInsights! the federal initiative "Germany safe in the network eV", which was presented on December 4, 2018 at the digital summit of the federal government in Nuremberg. The expert network was responsible for the concept, design and technical implementation of the exploratory website Wegesrand from Mönchengladbach and Berlin around CEO Thorsten Unger and interactive specialist Anne Sauer.
“Our approach is to strengthen understanding of artificial intelligence across target groups. The offer is aimed at both consumers and users,” says Anne Sauer. The knowledge transfer experts Wegesrand have therefore chosen a playful approach with 13 concrete application scenarios that illuminate different issues relating to science, data protection or ethics.
“In practice, AI is already commonplace – from chatbots to personal assistants to intelligent traffic control, but is often still perceived as a bogeyman that, for example, destroys jobs. What is missing is broad, generally understandable information about the benefits and advantages, but also the risks of artificial intelligence," says Thorsten Unger. "The relationship to AI in large parts of the German population is quite ambivalent and fluctuates between approval and vague fears". KInsights! is a concrete and motivating contribution to the discourse and invites consumers and users to deal with this topic of the future.
The project
KInsights! was created from the focus group IT security and artificial intelligence of the summit platform security, protection and trust for society and economy of the digital summit of the federal government. In association with "Germany safe online" and the banking association also work Wegesrand numerous other partners in the project, including Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Microsoft, SecuNet and Siemens. The offer is supported by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) and the German Insurance Association (GDV). The offer can be found on the website www.kinsights.de.