Aleph Alpha Founder
Jonas Andrulis: Germany faces major challenges
Jonas Andrulis: People can be ten times more efficient with the power of AI (archive image). photo
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In Germany, many more people retire every year than young people enter the labor market. AI could help with this challenge, says the founder of the start-up Aleph Alpha.
According to the Aleph Alpha founder, a comprehensive use of artificial intelligence (AI) in business and administration can help to get the consequences of demographic change under control.
At the DLD innovation congress in Munich, the head of the Heidelberg AI start-up pointed out that in Germany could not fill over 1.7 million positions.
“The next 20 years are going to be brutal with the demographic changes we’re going to see there, because many more people are leaving the job market than young people are coming in,” Andrulis said.
The change also affects the public service. “We already have 400,000 vacancies in administration. In addition, a critical portion of civil servants and employees will soon be leaving.” Against this background, we need to think about how we can support the remaining ambitious and talented people to do their work.
If this development is ignored, it could have fatal consequences for economic growth. As a car nation, Germany cannot be indifferent to the fact that China is now the world’s largest car exporter.
When using AI, it is important to ensure transparency and control. Aleph Alpha offers a technology that can detect contradictory information and present it transparently. However, the value creation of the future should not be taken over by AI alone. “Knowledge is created by people. But with the power of AI, they can be ten times more efficient and get rid of all the boring, stupid work that we have to do every day.”
Aleph Alpha is considered a German model AI company. The start-up develops large language models, similar to the Californian start-up OpenAI with ChatGPT. The Heidelberg-based company specializes in applications for public administration and industry. Aleph Alpha received a cash injection of more than half a billion dollars in November.