Overview
- Germany’s Verwaltungsgericht Hamburg ruled that using AI in school examinations constitutes deception even without an explicit ban, upholding a failing grade for a ninth grader who used ChatGPT in an English test.
- Job ads reference AI less even as related roles grow, with Ladders data showing AI job postings have tripled since 2021, prompting advice for candidates to show concrete tool use, projects and measurable gains.
- Formal recruiting adoption remains limited, as a Bitkom survey found only 1% of companies use AI to screen applications and 1% to conduct interviews, with 3% using AI-based competency analyses and disclosure duties applying to applicants.
- Employment and personnel-management AI will face high‑risk requirements under the EU AI Act from 2 August 2026, including data quality, transparency and human oversight obligations.
- In the tech sector, companies are hiring fewer entry‑level programmers as coding tools spread, with graduates increasingly funneled into oversight tasks, while research highlights that hybrid human‑AI work preserves meaning and that overreliance risks a ‘silent cognitive erosion’ of core skills.