Use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in German mi­gra­tion ad­min­is­tra­tion

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Arian Hen­ning’s Ver­fas­sungs­b­log post, “Com­puter Says No”, is dated 10 August 2026 and dis­cusses the draft KI-Migrationsverwaltungsgesetz ad­op­ted by the German fed­er­al cab­in­et on 29 July 2026. It fo­cuses on the pro­pos­al to au­thor­ise BAMF, mu­ni­cip­al for­eign­ers’ au­thor­it­ies and the For­eign Office to use ap­plic­a­tion data and per­son­al data from earli­er pro­ceed­ings to de­vel­op new AI-based models, while ques­tion­ing the scope of those powers and the lack of a robust frame­work for legal con­trol.