Juist over shockerende ideeën moet in een democratie vrij debat mogelijk zijn, schrijft @ljubisametikos.bsky.social in @trouw.nl. Het nieuwe wetsvoorstel ziet hij als 'een carte blanche om te pas en te onpas demonstranten te kunnen vervolgen'. https://bit.ly/4mA12QV

Opinie: Kabinet wil carte blanche om demonstranten te vervolgen

Seneca and academic citations as wall-furniture Do we truly engage with the papers and books we cite, or are they mere 'wall-furniture'? I argue, in this short blog post, that Seneca has some valuable lessons for us in this regard. www.linkedin.com/pulse/seneca...

digi-con.org/access-to-ju... LLMs offer free legal help, but are prone to hallucinate. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) reduces this, but is reliant on data in the hands of legal publishers. My blog explores how to open up RAG-enhanced LLMs for all, through open data initiatives.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... This preprint by me and Iris van Domselaar, addresses the impact that opaque judicial AI tools can have on procedural justice and contestation. We show how procedural justice theories can help shape explainablity rights to enable the contestation of these systems.

🚨🚨🚨‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗗𝗣𝗥 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝘁’ has been published in Law, Innovation & Technology!🚨🚨🚨 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was recently interviewed for the Belgian newspaper 'De Morgen' about how lawyers are getting disciplined for using AI-generated fake references. The rise of LLMs in legal practice is worrying—hallucinations, misinformation, and also the deepening justice gap. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/artif...