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Aina Errando

AI Sandboxes: Between Promises and Perils

In this guestblog, a critical but constructive look is taken at AI regulatory sandboxes under the EU AI Act. The authors explore both their promises and their perils, arguing for careful, transparent and well-resourced designs.

19.12.2025

AI Act and law

NL: Deze afbeelding toont een blauwe röntgenfoto van iemands borstkas - de ribben, de vage contouren van een hart en andere organen zijn zichtbaar. De afbeelding toont gele vierkanten rond de organen (linkerlong, luchtpijp, rechterlong, hart, middenrif) - elk met labels zoals: normaal, middenlijn, normale grootte. Rechtsonder staat in witte tekst 'geen afwijkingen gedetecteerd'.

EN: This image shows a blue xray image of a person's chest - it shows the ribs, the faint outline of a heart, and other organs. The image features yellow squares surrounding the organs (left lung, trachea, right lung, heart, diaphragm) - each of them feature labels such as: normal, midline, normal size. There is text in the right bottom corner in white which states 'no abnormalities detected'.

Willemien Laenens

How to innovate responsibly with AI in healthcare?

On 2 December 2025, the ‘AI and ethics in practice’ learning community was joined by the learning community ‘8 Caring Technology Principles’of King Baudouin Foundation and Thomas More-Licalab. Read the report of this event here.

17.12.2025

Ethics in practice

Julie Mannekens

Digital Omnibus & GDPR: a practical take on the changes

There has been a lot of fuzz around the Digital Omnibus and its proposed amendments to the GDPR. The package introduces multiple changes, but what do they actually mean in practice for companies?

03.12.2025

AI Act and law

A computer lab with three rows of four desks, each occupied by students working at computers. Overlaying the computer lab are red lines connecting through nodes, symbolizing the flow of communication, data exchange, and interconnected networks.

Pieter Duysburgh

New theme: AI literacy

The Knowledge Centre Data & Society is launching a new theme: AI literacy. Discover our publications and tools that help organisations to get started with this theme.

27.11.2025

AI literacy and maturity

De zon schijnt onophoudelijk aan de hemel terwijl mensen zich verzamelen rond signaalmasten en via hun digitale apparaten bezig zijn.

Rob Heyman

(NL) AI in je browser: automatisch kwetsbaar voor aanvallers

Perplexity en ChatGPT lanceerden onlangs hun eigen browsers: Comet en Atlas. De AI erin gaat browsen slimmer maken. In dit artikel ontdek je wat deze browsers kunnen en waarschuwen we voor de risico's van het gebruik.

30.10.2025

Ethics in practice

Sultan Erdogan

Shannen Verlee

Koen Vranckaert

Policy prototyping 2026: call for participants

Wanted: participants for our article 25 (4) AI-act policy prototyping exercise. This new project takes a closer look at the minimum requirements in contracts between providers of high-risk AI systems and their suppliers in the AI Act.

27.10.2025

AI Act and law

Een persoon waakt over een gezin dat AI consumeert. Het tafereel in de woonkamer wordt omlijst door beelden van elektrisch gereedschap.

A person watches over a family consuming AI. The living room vignette is framed by power tool imagery.

Wim Casteels

(NL) Summer Blog: The Seven Prompt Commandments for Responsible Use of AI Chatbots

Are you increasingly using AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, but not yet getting the results you want? With the seven prompts in this guest article, you can increase your chances of achieving a good result.

19.08.2025

Ethics in practice

Quickscan AI in de Vlaamse overheid Editie 2026 blog figuur1

Hans C. Arents

(NL) Summer Blog: Flemish government firmly committed to AI

How often, for what purposes, and by whom is AI used within the Flemish government? In this guest contribution, Hans C. Arents of Digitaal Vlaanderen explains how AI is currently being used within the Flemish government services.

05.08.2025

AI in Flanders

A person in a white lab coat is holding an iPad. The picture shows a medical setting in which the person with the lab coat is making a scan of a patient.

Anouk Verhellen

(NL) Summer Blog: Discussing data-driven innovation in healthcare

In this guest contribution, researcher Anouk Verhellen discusses DataKlap®, a method that encourages collaboration and dialogue between various stakeholders and supports the analysis and optimisation of data-driven systems.

29.07.2025

Workfloor
Ethics in practice

Een paarse kegelvormige figuur (die een typisch snoepje van de stad Gent voorstelt: de Cuberdon) houdt een foto van zichzelf vast in de buurt van een gebarsten weg, met een potlood, gum, een kasteel en AI-gerelateerde grafieken op de achtergrond.

A purple cone-shaped figure (which represents a typical sweet of the city of Ghent: the Cuberdon) holds a picture of itself near a cracked road, with a pencil, eraser, a castle, and AI-related graphs in the background.

(NL) Summer Blog: The city of Ghent explores the potential of AI for human-centred public services

More and more cities are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can contribute to better public services. In this blog, you will read about several AI use cases from the City of Ghent.

25.07.2025

AI in Flanders

Een roodgetinte illustratie toont het hoofd van een man omringd door wervelende AI-pictogrammen, met kleine, ondeugende heksachtige figuren die om hem heen vliegen. De uitdrukking van de man lijkt gedesoriënteerd en vermoeid, wat de mentale overbelasting symboliseert die wordt veroorzaakt door de overweldigende stroom AI-hulpmiddelen en -nieuws. De heksen staan voor het chaotische, kakelende karakter van de snelle AI-ontwikkelingen en versterken het gevoel van duizeligheid en verwarring. (Vertaling door DeepL)

This image comments on AI fatigue, illustrating how the overwhelming flood of tools and constant influx of headlines leaves most people feeling dizzy and disoriented. With AI icons swirling around the figure’s head, it captures the mental overload and confusion many feel as they struggle to keep up with rapid developments / the fast-paced AI landscape.

Pieter Duysburgh

(NL) Summer Blog: Do you need to get away from Big Tech?

Facebook, Instagram, X... For years, they were the place to reach your audience as a cultural organisation. But do the values of those platforms (still) align with the values of your organisation? And can you get away from these Big Tech players?

17.07.2025

Ethics in practice

A 3D geometric cube structure made of transparent glass-like material is interwoven with green plants.

Marlen Komorowski

Summer Blog - Who’s Afraid of AI? Bias Confirmation on New Technology’s Energy Use

In this blog, Professor Marlen Komorowski analyses AI's energy impact. She argues that the environmental footprint of AI matters, but that guilt is often placed on individual users instead of addressing the systemic changes we need.

02.07.2025

Ethics in practice

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