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title: "ALTAI"
description: "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…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/altai
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
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# ALTAI

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](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/principles-and-standards#eu-hleg-guidelines-and-altai)
- Chapters: [ch. 11, AI Defined](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/ai-defined) · [ch. 22, Principles & Standards](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/principles-and-standards)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-altai

## Sources

[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)