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A large and widely used AI database has been temporarily taken offline after researchers discovered that it contains more than a thousand child abuse images. Painful because AI companies use the image database to train their models.

The New York Times is filing a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement.

The risks of using artificial intelligence (AI) have increased sharply this year, warns the Personal Data Authority in its first annual report on AI.

As a system technology, AI has a major impact on a wide field of sectors and the people working in them. Developments follow each other in rapid succession and the market requires new knowledge and proper trained people all the time.

The elected political parties face important tasks in the Netherlands. Besides forming a cabinet, there are also several social issues that require urgent solutions or a breakthrough.

Generative AI language models ('large language models') that fill out Kieskompas' voting aid come out on the left side of the political spectrum. In addition, the models do not consistently answer subjective questions and quickly exhibit very different behaviour due to small changes in the question.

AI is now having a major impact on our daily lives. The technology influences everything from how medical diagnoses are made to what we watch and buy. It is clear: the role of AI is growing. But how is it being applied within the public sector?

The demand for acquiring and interpreting medical images is increasing faster than number of medical experts required to operate the medical imaging device and interpret their output. This is leading to an increase in the expert workload and extending waiting lists.

In April 2021, the European Commission published a proposal for an AI regulation. This was the world's first proposal for comprehensive horizontal regulation of AI. On 8 December 2023, the EU (European Parliament, Member States and European Commission) agreed on the content of the European AI Act.