Responsible application: from the AI Act and the GDPR to workable agreements your organisation can move forward with.
The more advanced your AI solutions, the more important it becomes that they not only work, but are also ethically sound and legally permitted. The European AI Act sets concrete requirements per risk class, and the GDPR applies in full as soon as personal data is involved.
But frameworks are not a brake — they are an accelerator. Organisations that have their rules in order dare to scale up. You learn to make the translation: from legal text to agreements that both lawyers and makers understand.
The AI Act did not exist, and it changes what compliance is actually about. The GDPR sets requirements for what you do with data: storing, sharing, retaining. The AI Act sets requirements for how your system behaves — and behaviour cannot be ticked off once.
Compliance thus becomes a standing burden of proof rather than a signature at handover. You record what the system may do, measure whether it stays within that, and can show it. Those who have this in order dare to scale up; the rest stay stuck in the pilot.
You draw up an AI framework for your own organisation: practical, proportionate and immediately usable.
An information manager maps all AI applications in the organisation and classifies them by risk.
A privacy officer carries out the risk analysis together with the team before the customer service bot goes live.
An adviser writes workable guidelines for colleagues' day-to-day use of generative AI.
You take this module the way you take the whole programme: classes every other week on Friday and Saturday, with a study load of 15–20 hours per week, of which 10–15 hours is self-study. The teaching is a mix of classroom lessons, practice-based learning, blended learning and working groups or study teams — taught by lecturers who practise the profession themselves on a daily basis.
You conclude each theme with a professional product or a technical solution addressing a real situation in your own work, which you discuss in an assessment with the lecturer. That way your portfolio grows with real work — and your employer benefits directly.
The format is not new: the teaching approach and the AI modules have been running for three years at the AI Proeflokaal — with business, with government, and across part-time modules and minors. What you meet in class here has already been worn in elsewhere.
After this module there is an AI framework for your own organisation that both lawyers and makers understand — and use.
Email or call the programme — we will gladly help you think it through.