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A
accountability
accuracy
active learning agent
active learning
activity
adaptive dynamic programming
adaptive learning
adversarial example
Adversarial Examples
AI Securityadverse action notice
adverse impact ratio
agile
AI Audit
AI GovernanceAI Ethics Board
AI GovernanceAI Impact Assessment
AI GovernanceAI Lifecycle Management
AI GovernanceAI principles
AI Safety Guidelines
AI SafetyAI Sprawl
AI GovernanceAI system
regulatoryAI Transparency Obligation
Regulatoryalgorithm
Algorithmic Accountability
AI Governancealgorithmic aversion
alignment
amplification
analytics
annotation
anomaly
anonymization
anthropomorphism
application programming interface (API)
application
artificial intelligence (AI) system
artificial intelligence learning
artificial narrow intelligence (ANI)
artificial neural networks
assessment
attack
attribute
audit log
audit
authenticity
automation bias
automation
autonomic
autonomous vehicle
autonomy
availability
B
C
calibration
capability
case
CE Marking
RegulatoryChain-of-Thought Reasoning
AI Reasoningchatbot
choreography
classification
classifier
clustering
cognitive automation
cognitive computing
column
computer vision
concept drift
confidentiality
Conformity Assessment
Regulatoryconfusion matrix
consent
constituent system
Constitutional AI
AI Safetyconstraint
construct validity
content validity
context-of-use
Context Window
Technicalcontext
contextual learning
control class
controllability
controller
copilot
corpus (corpora)
correlation
counterfactual explanation
counterfactual fairness
countermeasure
criterion validity
crowdsource
customer
cybersecurity
D
dark pattern
data analytics
data cleaning
data control
data dredging
data drift
data-driven
data fabric
data fusion
data governance
data mining
data point
Data Poisoning
AI Securitydata preparation
data proxy
data quality
data science
data scientist
data seeding
Data Sheet
AI Governancedata wrangling
data
decision-making
decision point
decision support system
decision tree
decision
decommission
deductive analytics
deep learning
deepfake
deletion
denial-of-service
dependability
deployer
regulatorydeployment
descriptive analytics
deterministic algorithm
deterministic
developer
diagnostic analytics
diagnostics
differential privacy
differential validity
digital labor
digital workforce
dimension reduction
dimension
disparate impact
disparate treatment
distributional robustness
diversity
documentation
domain expertise
domain shift
domain
drinking your own champagne
dynamic process
E
edge case
embedding
emotion recognition system
regulatoryemulation
end event
engineer
ensemble
environment
equality of odds
equality of opportunity
error propagation
error
ethics by design
ethics
evaluation
example
exception
execute
experiment
expert system
expertise
explainability
Explainable AI
AI Capabilitiesexplainer
explanation
exploratory
external validity
F
facial recognition (FR)
fairness metric
false negative
false positive
fault tolerance
favorable label
feature extraction
feature importance
feature shift
feature
federated learning
feedback loop
Few-Shot Learning
AI TrainingFine-Tuning
AI Trainingfirmware
fitting
Forecasting
fraud detection
fully autonomous
Function Calling
AI CapabilitiesFundamental Rights Impact Assessment
RegulatoryG
H
hacker
hardware
harm
harmful bias
high-risk AI system
regulatoryhuman-assisted
human-cognitive bias
human-computer interaction (HCI)
human-enabled machine learning
human-in-the-loop
human-machine teaming (HMT)
human-operator-intervention
human subjects
human system integration (HSI)
hyperparameters
hypothesis testing
I
impact assessment
impersonation
in-processing algorithm
in-processing
in silico
incident response
incident
independence
individual fairness
inference
information input component
information security
input
insider attack
instance weight
instance
integrity
intelligent process automation
interaction
internal validity
interoperability
interpretability
interpretable model
intervenability
L
M
machine learning
machine observation
malware
materiality
McNamara fallacy
measurability
measurement method
measurement model
measurement
membership inference
metadata
metric
minimization
mixed methods
MLOPS
model assertion
model card
Model Context Protocol
AI Infrastructuremodel debugging
model decay
Model Drift
AI Operationsmodel editing
model extraction
model governance
model inventory
model overlay
model risk management
model suite
model training
model validation
model
monitoring
moral agency
moral patiency
O
P
package
parametric
parent process
parity
participant
participation
passive learning agent
personal data
policy
positionality
post-hoc explanation
post-processing algorithm
post-processing
Post-Market Monitoring
Regulatorypractical significance
pre-processing algorithm
precision
prediction
predictive analysis
predictive analytics
preprocessing
prescriptive analytics
privacy-by-design
privacy-enhancing technology
privacy
privileged protected attribute
procedure
process flow
process
processing environment
processing
processor
product manager
product owner
productization
profiling
Prohibited AI Practice
RegulatoryPrompt Engineering
AI DevelopmentPrompt Injection
AI Securityprotected attribute
protected class
prototype
provider
regulatoryprovisioning
proxy
pseudo-anonymization (pseudonymization)
R
racialized
ranking
recall
recognition
recommendation system
rectification
red-team
Red Teaming
AI Securityreference class
reflexivity
regression
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
AI Trainingreinforcement learning
reliability
remediation
reproducibility
requirement
residual
resilience
Responsible AI Principles
AI Ethicsresponsible AI
result
retention limit
Retrieval Augmented Generation
AI Architecturerisk control
risk tolerance
risk
robotic desktop automation (RDA)
robotic process automation (RPA)
robust AI
robustness
root-mean-square deviation (RMSD)
row
S
safety
scalability
score
screen out
security
segmentation
self-aware system
self-diagnosis
self-healing system
semantic mapping
sensitivity analysis
sensory digitization
service
Shadow AI
AI Governanceshallow learning
signal detection theory
situational awareness
socio-technical system
software testing
sparsity
specification
stakeholder
standard deviation
start event
statistical bias
statistical parity
statistical significance
statistics
stereotype
stochastic
straight-through processing (STP)
strawperson
stress test
structured data
sub-process
supervised learning
support vector machines
Synthetic Data
Data Managementsystem of systems
system
systemic bias
T
target
task
taxonomy
technical control
technochauvinism
Temperature
TechnicalTest and Evaluation, Verification and Validation (TEVV)
test
third party
three lines of defense
Token
TechnicalTokenization
TechnicalTop-P Sampling
Technicaltraceability
training data
transaction
transfer learning
transformer
transparency
true negative
true positive
trust
trustworthiness
trustworthy AI
type I error
type II error
U
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