I am an academic who studies how people reason, how this reasoning can be captured in formal models and how it can be supported and improved using AI technologies. I am involved in the fields of in argumentation in AI and AI & Law. I work at the Department of Information and Computing Science of Utrecht University and the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

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National Police-lab AI

The National Police Lab AI is a collaborative initiative of the Dutch National Police and Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. As an ICAI lab, we develop state-of-the-art AI techniques to improve the safety in the Netherlands in a socially, legally and ethically responsible way. Check Utrecht Police Lab AI webpage for more information on the projects we have in Utrecht in the areas of text & data analytics, computational argumentation & dialogue and multi-agent systems.

Highlighted publications

F. Bex (2024) AI, Law and beyond - A Transdisciplinary Ecosystem for the Future of AI & Law. Presidential address to the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2023). Artificial Intelligence and Law, Online first. [PDF]

R. Scheffers, F. Bex & A. Borg (2024) Related Explanations in Formal Argumentation, an Empirical Study. Computational Models of Argument. Proceedings of COMMA 2024, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. [PDF]

D. Kolkman, F. Bex, N. Naryan & M. van der Put (2024) Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority. Big Data & Society, Online first. [PDF]

A. Borg & F. Bex (2024) Minimality, necessity and sufficiency for argumentation and explanation. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 168. [PDF]