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.