Belgium university to quit project with Israeli institutions
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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel said it would pull out of an AI project it was working on in collaboration with Israeli institutions, amid the Gaza war.
A Belgian university said on Wednesday that it is planning to end its collaboration with two Israeli institutions on an artificial intelligence project.
It comes after a negative assessment by Vrije Universiteit Brussel's ethics commission, the Belga News Agency reported.
The university said it would start discussions with the EU Commission, which is funding the research project, in order to pull out.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel said on Tuesday that it wished to achieve greater transparency over its work with Israeli organisations given the "unacceptable escalation of the conflict in the Middle East".
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