The European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) has endorsed the Universal Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence (UGAI) presented by the Civil Rights Coalition "The Public Voice" on 23 October 2018. The guidelines are now supported by more than 50 civil society organisations. In order to enable the UGAI to be better disseminated to the German-speaking public, we have translated the text. We do not claim any copyrights for the German-language translation - ...