AfD on digital affairs

The AfD supports careful use of artificial intelligence wherever it makes processes more efficient and improves quality of life. Regulation should ensure that humans stay in control, and AI should be used cautiously in schools.

AI means artificial intelligence. The AfD wants to use AI. AI should make work easier. But people must stay in control. Rules are needed for that. Schools should use AI carefully.

The program sees AI as a major technological upheaval with opportunities and risks that are not yet clear. It considers stopping technical progress impossible; from a conservative standpoint, one should lead and steer it. AI should not make more mistakes than a person in the same situation and should not make people redundant. Children and young people should still learn basic cultural and cognitive skills despite AI.

The AfD wants all of Hamburg connected to fiber-optic internet and wants to promote digital government services, while keeping in-person contact with authorities possible. Digital technology in classrooms should also be promoted, without displacing handwriting and basic arithmetic.

All of Hamburg should get fast internet. This needs fiber-optic cables. Public offices should work more digitally. But people should still be able to talk to staff in person. Schools should use digital tools. Kids should still learn to write and do math.

According to the program, the city's current fiber initiative does not guarantee full coverage. Digital technology should make it easier for citizens to access government services and make administration more effective. Face-to-face contact with the administration should remain possible. Digital tools in teaching should be promoted, but handwriting and basic arithmetic should remain the foundation of schooling.

The AfD supports private ownership of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and wants trading and research in this field to stay legal and be promoted. It rejects a central bank digital currency issued by the European Central Bank, seeing it as a threat to civil liberties.

Bitcoin is a digital currency. The AfD likes such currencies. People should be allowed to own and trade them. The European Central Bank plans a digital euro. The AfD is against it. It sees a danger to freedom.

Private ownership of cryptocurrencies should remain legal, as should trading, distribution and information about them. Research into Bitcoin and blockchain technologies should be supported, particularly at Hamburg's universities. The program views programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) critically. In the AfD's view, the possibility of so-called smart contracts in particular opens the door to abuse.