In over 15 years as a reporter, I have published hundreds of magazine features, newspaper articles, and podcasts on AI and other topics. Here are some highlights from over the years: 

• Merkel's Last Dance: Why is Germany behind on tech? Europe’s richest country is lagging in technology — and Angela Merkel knows it. How much is the chancellor herself to blame? I reported and hosted this episode of DW's Merkel's Last Dance podcast. (DW, July 2021) 

• Germany’s balancing act: Fighting online hate while protecting free speech. The fight against online hate speech runs into trouble: privacy. (Politico, October 2020)

• How killer robots overran the UN. Militaries and manufacturers are working on weapons that could one day be deployed to fight on their own.  (Politico, February 2019)

• Inside Amazon’s German AI research empire. The US juggernaut is tapping German researchers to crack some of the toughest problems in artificial intelligence — to the dismay of politicians. (Politico, May 2019)

• Coronavirus triggers soul-searching on privacy in Germany.  Experts warn that decades-old standards could suffer lasting damage as the country tackles the pandemic. (Politico, April 2020)

• Meteorologists of violence. Researchers are using AI to predict outbreaks of conflict. (Politico, March 2020)

• Europe’s migration crisis seen from orbit. Activists hope to combine AI and satellite imagery to save lives in the Mediterranean. (Politico, January 2020)

• Welcome to the age of uncertainty, or: the rise of deepfakes. If everything can be faked, how can we know anything is real? (Politico, December 2019)

• Europe’s silver bullet in global AI battle: Ethics. EU experts hope ‘trust’ will prove to be the bloc’s competitive edge. (Politico, March 2019)

• This story was not written by a robot. But one day it might be. How AI is set to disrupt journalism. (Politico, March 2019)

• How killer robots overran the UN. Militaries and manufacturers are working on weapons that could one day be deployed to fight on their own. (Politico, February 2019)

• Finland’s grand AI experiment. Inside Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence. (Politico, January 2019)

• Big Brother in Berlin. As Germany dabbles in state surveillance, facial recognition technology raises privacy concerns. (Politico, November 2018)

• The man who invented the self-driving car (in 1986). Long before Big Tech got behind the wheel, Ernst Dickmanns unleashed a driverless Mercedes onto the roads of Europe. (Politico, July 2018)