AI at the ECB and the need to strengthen internal critical thinking
Carlos Bowles writes that efficiency gains should be shared with staff and efforts made to protect cognitive capacity
Progress in Artificial Intelligence is inevitably – and fortunately – impacting the European Central Bank, which has made the use of AI one of its strategic priorities. An internal survey conducted by the staff committee in February 2025 asked ECB staff to estimate the proportion of their tasks that could be automated in the coming years, expressed as a percentage of the time they currently spend on them. The 1,600 colleagues who responded estimated that AI could help them save 15% of their
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