AVL Focus - Issue 2025

COVER STORY

cross industries, AI is reshaping processes, business

models, and leadership logic. It enhances productivity

and accelerates innovation cycles, while also raising

new questions about skills, responsibility, and trust. For Europe

in particular, the challenge lies in avoiding passivity. A culture

of regulation without decisive action risks leaving innovation

and market leadership to other regions.

Education plays a central role in ensuring sovereignty. Digital

resilience is not built in data centers but in classrooms. Young

people must learn how algorithms work and how to reflect on

their implications. Repetitive entry-level tasks in many profes-

sions, once essential for building judgment and expertise, are

increasingly automated. The risk is not that machines think

better, but that humans stop learning to think for themselves.

Artificial intelligence is not just another wave of digitalization.

It marks a fundamental shift that is transforming economies,

societies, and even our self-perception. Unlike previous

technology trends, AI is spreading at unprecedented speed

and depth, redefining how we create value, make decisions,

and innovate. It is not a question of if we use AI, but how

responsibly and effectively we do so.

AI as the

New Engine of

­Mobility Innovation

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