AI systems exhibiting properties (lawful, ethical, technically robust) that warrant the trust of users, affected parties, and society, as articulated in the EU High-Level Expert Group's framework and adopted in subsequent regulation.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 30 Jul 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
An EU-based vendor self-assessing against the HLEG seven requirements before deployment.
Is an instance
An organisation referencing trustworthy-AI properties in its AI policy framework.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A purely performance-oriented evaluation.
Not an instance
A black-box model with no transparency provisions.

Editorial commentary

The EU HLEG (2019) framework lists seven requirements for trustworthy AI: human agency and oversight; technical robustness and safety; privacy and data governance; transparency; diversity, non-discrimination, and fairness; societal and environmental well-being; accountability. The framework strongly influenced the EU AI Act. A parallel, intergovernmental framework — the OECD AI Principles, also adopted in 2019 — covers similar ground (human rights and democratic values, transparency, robustness and safety, accountability) at OECD/G20 scale rather than as an EU-specific instrument.

References

EU High-Level Expert Group on AI, 'Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI' (2019); EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689).

Also known as

EU Trustworthy AI · HLEG Trustworthy AI

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Trustworthy AI"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/trustworthy-ai" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [
    "EU Trustworthy AI",
    "HLEG Trustworthy AI"
  ],
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  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-30T08:47:44",
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