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UGent AI failures

Every documented AI failure involving UGent on the AI Failure Index, classified by the mechanism that broke.

Failures
1
Highest severity
Medium
Span
2025
Failure modes
1
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FI-0166Public SectorMedium
Hallucination

Ghent University's rector gave an inaugural speech with AI-hallucinated quotes from Einstein

On 19 September 2025, UGent rector Petra De Sutter gave her inaugural speech containing fabricated quotes attributed to Albert Einstein, philosopher Hans Jonas, and psychologist Paul Verhaeghe. The quotes were hallucinations generated by an AI tool used to edit the draft text and went undetected until investigative outlet Apache revealed the errors in January 2026. De Sutter subsequently withdrew from receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Amsterdam, and UGent amended the speech on its website without issuing a public correction notice.

Confidence
Medium (multi-source)
UGent (Universiteit Gent)3 sourcesPressPublicSep 2025

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