KMI – The Project for Transformed Work in West Saxony. The project conducts application-oriented research on the introduction of human-friendly artificial intelligence and accompanies nine regional pilot companies in this process. For the sustainable working world of tomorrow.
Project description
Initial situation
Innovative technical solutions are driving the transformation of the world of work. Developments around the keyword of artificial intelligence play a central role here. Companies must be put in a position to make the best possible use of this driver. This requires a comprehensive redesign of work. The transformation process includes processes as well as the organisation and organisational culture, as well as the strategic orientation of the companies.
Project goal
The main objective of the project is to enable companies, especially in the manufacturing sector in the Central German coalfield and neighbouring regions, to create social, ecological and economic benefits through the use of AI within the company and beyond the company's boundaries, with the help of the KMI (Artificial and Human Intelligent) competence centre.
Implementation
In the KMI project, the socio-technical challenges that arise for the organisation as a whole, but also for the individual employees, when methods of artificial intelligence find their way into the company, are examined. Specifically, nine use cases are being realised as pilot projects in the project. In the process, it will be determined which work design, organisational and technical measures need to be taken in response to the AI-driven changes in the company in order to always keep an eye on the human aspect of value creation in addition to the technical innovation.
Consortium
Project funding
The KMI research and development project is funded as part of the "Future of Work: Regional Competence Centres of Labour Research - Artificial Intelligence" funding measure in the “Innovations for the Production, Services and Work of Tomorrow” programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is supervised by the Karlsruhe Project Management Agency (PTKA).
