Upcoming workshop

  • "Keeping things private: Exploring open-source large language models for sensitive text data"
  • workshop with prof. dr. Enrique Manjavacas
  • 15 April 2024 10:00 - 16:00
  • Abstract: Do you work with sensitive text data and does that make you hesitant about using AI-models such as ChatGPT? Are you unsure about what really happens to your data, and are you concerned about privacy and security? And most importantly: are you looking for a safer alternative? This course, brought to you by TEXTUA and VAIA, explores the use of open-source large language models as alternatives for dealing with sensitive data in a more secure way. But does their performance match that of the likes of ChatGPT? During a lecture and a hands-on workshop, you gain insight in current large language models' potential and implications for data safety, and you tackle case studies that you can afterwards apply to your own data.
  • Practical details can be found here ​

Ongoing lecture series on AI and Business Law, co-organisation ACRAI and the Research Group Business and Law (Law Faculty)(February - April 2024)

The Antwerp Center on Responsible AI (ACRAI) and the Faculty of Law’s research group Business & Law host this lecture series to facilitate the understanding of the interplay between AI and business law. These lectures have an explicitly interdisciplinary focus, since the issues raised require insights in the technical aspects of computers and data science, in business economics, and in the relevant legal framework.

  • Monday 19 February 2024 11h-13h: AI Bias and the European AI Act, Toon Calders (University of Antwerp Faculty of Science) & Jan Blockx (University of Antwerp Faculty of Law)
  • Monday 4 March 2024 11h-13h: AI Transparency and Explainability, David Martens (University of Antwerp Faculty of Business and Economics) & Sylvie De Raedt (University of Antwerp Faculty of Law)
  • Monday 18 March 2024 11h-13h: AI: Friend or Foe of Fairness from the Tax Administration, Anne Van de Vijver & Anouk Decuypere (University of Antwerp Faculty of Law)
  • Monday 15 April 2024 11h-13h: AI and Intellectual Property, Esther van Zimmeren (University of Antwerp Faculty of Law)
  • Monday 29 April 2024 11h-13h: AI and Transport, Edwin Van Hassel (University of Antwerp Faculty of Business and Economics) & Wouter Verheyen (University of Antwerp Faculty of Law)
  • Practical information can be found here