The review was undertaken following an invitation by the Federal Ministries of Labour and Social Affairs (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, BMAS), of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), and of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz, BMWK). The BMAS also provided financial support for this review.
The report was prepared by a team from the OECD Directorates for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), and Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) led by Lucia Russo, with the support of Noah Oder (consultant to the OECD), with the guidance of Karine Perset, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Unit of the Digital Economy Policy Division. Audrey Plonk, Andrew Wyckoff and Jerry Sheehan, respectively Deputy Director, and former and current Director of STI, provided oversight. Stefano Scarpetta, Director of ELS, and Angelica Salvi Del Pero provided oversight on Chapters 5 and 10. The report also benefitted from the inputs of Hanna-Mari Kilpelainen.
Lead authors for individual chapters were Noah Oder and Lucia Russo (Chapters 2, 3, 6 and 7), Lucia Russo, Celine Caira, and Noah Oder (Chapter 4), Sandrine Cazes and Anja Meierkord, with contributions from Glenda Quintini and Stijn Broecke (Chapter 5), Jamie Berryhill and Moritz von Knebel (consultant to the OECD) (Chapter 8), Johannes Kirnberger (consultant to the OECD) and Celine Caira (Chapter 9), and Eric Sutherland (Chapter 10). Sophia Klumpp (consultant to the OECD) provided research and organisational support.
Luis Aranda led the data gathering from the OECD.AI Policy Observatory with Besher Massri and Jakob Jelencic (Jožef Stefan Institute), Fabio Curi Paixao and Jacqueline Lessoff (consultants to the OECD). Lucy Russell (consultant to the OECD) assisted with data visualisation.
John Tarver, Misha Pinkhasov, Walter Pasquarelli, Eleonore Morena (consultants to the OECD), as well as Angela Gosmann and Nikolas Schmidt edited this report. Andreia Furtado provided editorial and publishing support. The report benefited significantly from their engagement.