What Berlin's top 3 parties want from AI

Surprise: ALL Berlin parties are pro-AI. But each of them has its own conditions

Let's talk about the winners of recent Berlin elections. I have checked all their party programs for one thing: AI.

1. Grüne (pro-eco)

They are in the top 4 parties in parliament and they prefer¹:

• non-American AI from Germany or at least Europe,
• Open Source AI.

This means support for projects like:

• Mistral from France
• Black Forest Labs from Germany,
• Open Source models like Stable Diffusion, which was created at a Munich university.

2. Die Linke (leftists)

They came first in Berlin and they want²:

• AI to be transparent and controllable
• Do not want Berlin police to use Palantir

(Palantir is the American AI surveillance software of Trump ally Peter Thiel, which the Trump administration uses to collect data on migrants³⁴).

3. CDU (center-right)

They came second in Berlin, and they want⁵:

• to use AI to cut bureaucracy, most of all in social housing,
• but it also says directly that it wants more police video surveillance with AI.

4. AfD (far-right)

Came third in Berlin. They want⁶:

• full video surveillance in every "hotspot" area of the city,
• in the same list of security demands it asks for AI "if needed".

5. SPD (center-left)

They came fifth in Berlin and they want⁷:

• to use AI to speed up permits for building houses,
• to make Berlin the number 1 place for AI and DeepTech in Europe,
• no Palantir for Berlin police.

Sources: the parties' 2026 election programmes