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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.

  • 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)

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

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}
}