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3/18/26
KIRA and Bertelsmann Host Event on AI and State Capacity
How can the public sector recruit top technical AI talent? This was the question of a panel featuring Prof. Monika Schnitzer (LMU Munich), Carla Hustedt (Stiftung Mercator) and Konstantin Sietzy (UK AISI).
2/3/26
International AI Safety Report 2026
Daniel Privitera and Philip Fox contributed to the world’s most comprehensive scientific synthesis on AI capabilities and risks.
10/14/25
New Report: AI Compute in Germany
Philip Fox (KIRA), Monika Schnitzer (LMU) and Daniel Privitera (KIRA) survey current capacities and future needs in Germany and outline three possible compute strategies.
6/16/25
Schnitzer and Privitera: Germany should take AGI seriously
Prof. Monika Schnitzer (German Council of Economic Experts) and Daniel Privitera argue that Germany is unprepared for a world with human-level artificial intelligence – but could take concrete steps to change that.
3/17/25
Op-ed: Why Germany Needs an AI Security Institute
Germany should build state capacity to protect the public against AI-related national security threats, argue Anton Leicht and Philip Fox.
1/29/25
International AI Safety Report 2025
KIRA members Privitera and Fox have been involved in an unprecedented global collaboration on the science of AI safety.
10/20/23
Bengio and Privitera in TIME: A Beneficial AI Roadmap
In an op-ed with Turing Award winner Prof. Yoshua Bengio, Daniel Privitera argues that progress, safety and participation are not mutually exclusive.
7/6/23
1st Bundestag AI Boot Camp
From technical basics to practical use cases to risks and governance: Together with Cosmonauts & Kings and Project Together, the KIRA Center hosted the 1st AI Boot Camp in the German Bundestag.
4/14/23
ZEIT Reporting on KIRA Survey: How Germans Think about AI
How do ordinary people think about AI? Our representative survey maps public perceptions in April 2023.
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