White Papers

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) can lead to a sustainable competitive advantage for a company. However, the decision whether to make or buy LLMs is complex.

The present study identified uncertainties among AI users based on the risk classification of more than 100 AI systems in enterprise functions.

Exploring the impact of the AI Act on Startups in Europe

This whitepaper gives an overview of the many ways in which AI can help the fight against climate change and describes the requirements that are needed to use the potential of AI even better. It is an important contribution for anyone who wants to understand the key mechanisms and levers for AI to tackle climate change.

This report aims to draw attention to this often-neglected “soft” side of applying AI successfully. It highlights what is special about AI – after all, change is not a new concept – and offers concrete measures on how to address the issues of culture, communication, and change in the context of an AI transformation. In doing so, we rely on our experience from successful approaches to foster AI applications in larger enterprises.

The advent of artificial intelligence presents companies with both unique opportunities and – as practitioners’ experience has shown – unique challenges. In this whitepaper and the accompanying comprehensive valuation tool, appliedAI, in cooperation with its technology and industry partners, offers a lifeline to those who are confronted with one particularly vexing challenge of AI: Namely, how to best quantify and measure the value contribution of AI initiatives during the course of a company’s journey to AI maturity.

Built together with our partners, this guide is an attempt to share the experience of ML practitioners in the enterprise sector. Here the contributors discuss and elaborate on the challenges companies face in the real world. Maintained by the appliedAI Initiative, the guide reflects a commitment from the partners of appliedAI to share their experiences and best practices when moving beyond the PoC.

This report is intended to provide helpful guidance for make-or-buy decisions with AI. Download the paper to view a structure of the make-or-buy questions, a framework with decision criteria for solving the make-or-buy question and a selection of the optimal partner and potential pitfalls of different partner types.

Download our latest paper to learn what every board member needs to know about AI. Discover how AI affects various individual board roles, how these learnings can be readily be applied to boards and the 8 top priorities for Boards in the AI Journey.

In February of 2020, the European Commission Published the "White Paper On Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust". appliedAI and our partners have come together to publish a Position Paper outlining our response to the White Paper.

Critical lessons to identify and prioritize AI use cases.

We cover best practices for how to build the organization for scaling AI. Discover the elements needed for a comprehensive AI strategy, an outline for prototypical organizational setup and key learnings from mature AI scalers.

In this whitepaper, you'll find guidance on how to assess the potential of AI for your business and develop a coherent AI strategy.

Together with the ‘Stiftung Neue Verantwortung’, we have reviewed indicators for successful national AI strategies and how to monitor them.

the appliedAI Initiative’s standpoint on a German AI strategy