Germany’s AI rollout is being sold as a fix for its worker shortage

The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them.

The concrete version of that pitch is small and unglamorous. A homebuilder in the northwest of the country introduced AI to its back office last year and cut the time it takes to process an invoice from four working days to two.

No restructuring, no headcount drama, just a clerical task that now takes half as long. Multiplied across an economy, Bloomberg reports, the potential gains from this kind of automation run into the hundreds of billions of euros, a figure it puts at around €300bn.

That headline number should be treated as a projection rather than a measured result, and it sits among a spread of competing estimates. The personnel...

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