SPD on digital affairs

The SPD wants to revise the federal AI strategy with a focus on systemic innovation. Plans include AI ecosystems for individual industries, generative language models for specific fields, and investment in computing capacity at universities.

AI means artificial intelligence. The SPD wants to renew the government's plan for AI. There should be AI projects for single industries. Universities should get better computers and more know-how. Projects for the common good should get money too.

Language models are to be developed for medicine, materials research and education. Funding is to build on existing structures and broadly strengthen computing infrastructure and skills at universities. Social innovations and public-interest projects are to receive special consideration. Further priorities are quantum computing, robotics and next-generation network technologies.

The SPD wants to speed up the digitization of public administration and put responsibility for it in a single ministry. Agencies would exchange data digitally with each other so that citizens only have to provide it once.

The SPD wants government offices to work digitally. One ministry should be in charge of this. People should give their data only once. The offices then share the data themselves. People should be able to prove their identity online.

Subordinate agencies such as ITZBund, the Bundesdruckerei and the BSI are to cooperate so that key projects are finished quickly and are easy to use. A treaty between the federal government and the states is planned for the once-only data principle. Register modernization would be carried out, and the Central Register of Foreigners would become the central platform for immigration and asylum law. The electronic ID is to be used everywhere and work across the EU; a new DeutschlandID would be added. Automation and artificial intelligence are meant to speed up processes.

The SPD wants a dedicated law against digital violence. It is meant to close gaps in criminal law on image-based abuse, restrict spy apps and make it easier to block offenders' accounts.

The SPD wants a new law against violence on the internet. People who shame others with images should face punishment. Spy apps should be restricted. These are programs used to watch others in secret. Offenders' accounts should be easier to block.

According to the platform, violence is spreading in the digital world quickly and on an unprecedented scale. The planned law would close criminal-law gaps on image-based abuse and limit the use of spy apps. Offenders' accounts should be easier to block. A right of collective action is meant to help enforce victims' rights, allowing organizations to sue on their behalf.