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German Digital Minister Says AI Will Surpass the Printing Press and the Industrial Revolution

He presents his own use of Claude as evidence that AI can ease labor shortages, with personalized tutoring as a near-term benefit.

Overview

  • Karsten Wildberger made the assessment in a Deutsche Presse-Agentur interview published December 24 and the reports did not detail new policy measures.
  • He said he uses Anthropic’s Claude for one to two hours a day to structure ideas through iterative prompts and feedback loops.
  • Framing AI as an answer to Germany’s skills shortage and aging population, he added that human work remains essential in areas such as craft trades and care.
  • He argued that AI enables new problem-solving and claimed a skilled programmer using AI can be roughly ten times more productive than before.
  • Coverage places his remarks in the post‑2022 surge in mainstream AI use since ChatGPT, noting both hopes for medical advances and personalized tutoring and concerns about job losses and creativity.