General Major Jürgen Setzer, the deputy inspector of the Cyber‑ and Information Domain and the chief security officer of the Bundeswehr’s Cyber‑and Information Domain command (CIR) in Bonn, said the German armed forces will not adopt artificial‑intelligence models developed in the United States.
“Instead, we aim to develop our own capabilities. At the moment we are evaluating models offered by German and European manufacturers for this purpose” Setzer told “Handelsblatt”.
In the United States the debate over the use of AI is intense. Just a few days ago the Pentagon announced that it will exclude the models of US provider Anthropic and plans to replace them with those from OpenAI.
The Bundeswehr is not yet there. Setzer explained that first a data‑integration platform and analytical tools must be built. When asked when the military might actually employ AI, he replied that by 2029 they want to be combat‑ready, and that is the target they are working toward.
