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AI literacy: moving beyond general training to system-specific awareness

The AI literacy point is very interesting. AI literacy is one of those odd obligations: on paper, it makes sense, but in practice it’s sadly often been used to offer training on AI usage principles without knowing which AI systems are actually (going to be) used. I’m keener on ensuring that any person using an […]

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Join our upcoming seminar in Antwerp covering the AI Act and data regulation

AI-powered translation of the blurb of our AI-related talk on Tuesday 6 June in Antwerp: “Update on the AI Act and other regulations within Europe AI and Data Act: how to prepare for them? What impact does European legislation on data and AI have on the activities of Flemish companies and other organizations? And why […]

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What the upcoming AI Act actually means for everyday enterprise structures

While everyone is shouting “it’s for realz now”*, what will the AIAct actually mean for most organisations? Awareness (“AI literacy”) obligations and obligations to ensure that people know (i) if they are interacting with an AI system or (ii) whether they are subject to an AI system – and safeguards to ensure that no high-risk […]

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Spotting the irony when privacy critics use dark patterns and trick wording

Wasn’t FOMO manipulation / “trick wording” a darkpattern? Why then do some critics thereof use them? Genuinely curious. Not all do so, far from it (and some of the most prominent ones are very good at *avoiding* such techniques), but it seems that some enjoy labelling everything as “Breaking” (even information that is more than […]

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Unpacking the leaked final text of the upcoming AI Act

Very important leak – current version, and potentially final, of the AIAct. Read Luca Bertuzzi’s explanations of the context carefully!

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Moving past the generative AI hype to focus on real governance and liability

Yes, GenerativeAI is what people are talking about. Yes, it presents specific risks (notably re disinformation). But from an aigovernance and liability perspective, the risks associated with predictive/discriminative AI are just as relevant. In her speech today re the State of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen said that we should “not underestimate the […]

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The compliance deadlines that matter before the AI Act takes full effect

This is not an AIAct post. Let’s not forget that before 2 August 2026 (the date that matters to most companies re that Act), there are already many other rules that apply – and have applied for some time – to all kinds of AI systems. For instance, data protection rules (such as the GDPR […]

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Watch our CPDP2024 panel debate on the friction in the EU data strategy

A must-watch: here is the recording of our fun CPDP2024 panel discussion on the EU data strategy (covering GDPR, DMA, AIAct, fundamental rights, PayOrOK and much more re data protection). The other panel participants were Patricia Vidal Martinez, Luca Bolognini and Rob van Eijk, and it was moderated by Cecilia Alvarez. Really fantastic stuff – […]

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Why the public debate around high-risk AI safety is ignoring structural privacy

Suddenly general audiences in the EU are hearing about AI legislation in the news, and high-risk systems present a risk to… privacy (really, that’s the only angle being put forward in some news outlets). As if the GDPR didn’t contain anything that can be (and is) used to manage the data protection aspects of AI […]

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Clearing up the confusion around the multiple adoptions of the AI Act

Confusing, much? With all the “AIAct adopted” posts, 2 months after the previous flood of “AI Act adopted” posts, anyone not following closely might think “What, again?”. (+ rinse and repeat in a few weeks during European Parliament phases) So here’s the explanation: today’s COREPER vote by EU Member States was one of two critical […]

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