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Singapore’s new AI fairness toolkit highlights global governance trends

Today’s release of an artificialintelligence fairness toolkit (Veritas Toolkit v2.0) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore is an occasion to recall that there is no plug-and-play tool for everyone – but toolkits can be a useful source of inspiration. Released under an Apache 2.0 open source licence, the diagnosis tool (in Python) and assessment tool […]

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Lessons from a US lawyer who let an unverified AI chatbot invent legal citations

AI won’t replace you, you’ll be replaced by someone who uses AI” – or perhaps “you will replace someone who uses AI badly”? A U.S. lawyer appears to have ignored key�AIgovernance�rules, in a case where ChatGPT was asked to do legal research on behalf of the lawyer and ended up making up references (very realistically […]

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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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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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How modern corporate lawyers balance roles as AI advisors and technical users

Lawyers can both be AI advisors (legal implications) and users of machine learning / generativeai / applied statistics / … systems. Tomorrow we will be helping members of the Flemish Bar Association understand some of the key things to look out for and reflexes to have – both for themselves and for their own clients. […]

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Saying goodbye to Google Cache and adapting evidence gathering in tech litigation

Goodbye Google Cache – you were one of the best friends of litigators when it came to evidence-gathering. The Wayback Machine is obviously still there and a tremendous resource for longer term evidence, but for shorter term Google Cache was great. (On the defending side, if you were savvy enough, you knew that you could […]

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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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Why advising on the AI Act before the final text is published is a major gamble

Amazing how many posts I see from law firms and consultants about the AI Act and saying they can advise on the implications for businesses – before the details of the final text are known! We know some of the general ideas, but don’t run to lawyers just yet for precise advice – or risk […]

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Why claims of 100% GDPR compliance for AI software are a myth

100% GDPR compliant” claims seem to have made a big comeback with the flurry of GenerativeAI tools being released*. As a reminder, claiming that a software solution is GDPR compliant is a marketing trick at best and misleading at worst. First, if you’re not sure what the sources are on which a particular AI system […]

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