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The ability of an AI system to change its behaviour while in use, through learning after deployment; optional under the EU AI Act definition 1. For governance it is one change trigger among several: most behaviour change in practice comes from vendor updates, drift, prompt edits or corpus refreshes.

Developed in
ch. 11, From definition element to registry field
Chapters
ch. 11, AI Defined
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

4 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • Human-in-command (HIC)

    The oversight mode, named by the EU High-Level Expert Group, in which people oversee the overall activity of an AI system and decide when and whether to use…

  • Human-in-the-loop (HITL)

    The oversight mode in which a person can intervene in every decision cycle of an AI system; in engineering terms, a gate that holds each consequential action…

  • Human-on-the-loop (HOTL)

    The oversight mode in which a person can intervene in the design cycle and monitors the system's operation, rather than approving each decision.

  • Intended purpose

    The use for which the provider intends an AI system, including its specific context and conditions of use.

  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

  • Drift

    The gradual divergence of a model's inputs, outputs or performance from its validated baseline over time; a runtime signal that a control or eval must catch.

Sources

  1. [1] Commission Guidelines on the definition of an artificial intelligence system established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (C(2025) 5053 final; non-binding; seven elements of Art. 3(1), inference as the indispensable condition; exclusions). European Commission. 2025-02-06. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-publishes-guidelines-ai-system-definition-facilitate-first-ai-acts-rules-application (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Adaptiveness. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/adaptiveness. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026adaptiveness,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Adaptiveness}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/adaptiveness}
}