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Trustworthy AI

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 21 May 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.

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
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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
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