UHasselt has a mission as a civic university to gain insight into pressing societal questions. In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence has progressively disrupted our society by bringing incredible potential but also unexplored risks.

Our researchers aim to help our international network of partners in the search for answers.

Doing so, we closely follow European initiatives, such as the AI act, that serve the same purpose of helping our society make the most of this upcoming technology.

Following the AI act, we adhere to the definition of Artificial Intelligence:

AI systems are designed to operate with a certain level of autonomy and, based on machine and/or human-provided data and inputs, infer how to achieve a given set of human-defined objectives using machine learning and/or logic- and knowledge based approaches, and produces system-generated outputs such as content (generative AI systems), predictions, recommendations or decisions , influencing the environments with which the AI system interacts.