Berlin When Florian Stegmann steps up to the lectern, a small detail on his t-shirt shows the enormous expectations attached to the project he will be presenting. It’s mid-June and the head of the Baden-Württemberg state chancellery has traveled from Stuttgart to Berlin to announce a small revolution.
The Baden-Württemberg state administration is getting a digital assistant that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to make text work easier for officials. That’s why Stegmann’s T-shirt now reads: “The Länd”. The message: The “Ländle” should get a digital update.
Baden-Württemberg developed the digital assistant in cooperation with the tech company Aleph Alpha from Heidelberg. The project has attracted a lot of attention. The State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Markus Richter, is there to take a look at the small revolution and to apply it as quickly as possible. In his function, Richter is something like the digital chief of the federal government.
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