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The Assessment List for Trustworthy AI, published by the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI in July 2020: a self-assessment checklist that turns the seven requirements of the 2019 Ethics Guidelines into questions 1. Useful as a source of candidate controls; answered once, it is only an attestation.

Developed in
ch. 22, EU HLEG guidelines and ALTAI
Chapters
ch. 11, AI Defined · ch. 22, Principles & Standards
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

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

ALTAI: mentions per chapter4 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapter11 AI Defined: 1 mention11 AI Defined122 Principles & Standards: 3 mentions22 Principles & Standards3No mentions in the other 21 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
ALTAI: mentions per chapter4 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapter0001020304050607081011 AI Defined: 1 mention1111213141516171819202122 Principles & Standards: 3 mentions32223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of ALTAI per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map0No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined1Yes
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards3Yes
23 AI Agents0No
  • Trustworthy AI

    A banner used by other people's frameworks, notably the EU High-Level Expert Group and NIST, whose seven trustworthy characteristics make it concrete.

Sources

  1. [1] Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (ALTAI) for self-assessment (final list presented 17 Jul 2020 after a pilot; document and web tool). High-Level Expert Group on AI / European Commission. 2020-07-17. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/assessment-list-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-altai-self-assessment (verified: primary)

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Cite this term

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

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026altai,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{ALTAI}},
  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/altai}
}