Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence

Official metadata

Official title

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence

Official reference

COM(2019) 168 final

Document type

Communication

Document date

2019-04-08

Document date kind

Document issue

Document-date evidence

European Commission / EUR-Lex · Document masthead immediately above the title: 'EUROPEAN COMMISSION'; 'Brussels, 8.4.2019'; 'COM(2019) 168 final'. — The dated Commission masthead establishes 8 April 2019 as the issue date of the final communication.

Publication date

2019-04-08

Publication-date evidence

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Page heading 'Communication: Building Trust in Human Centric Artificial Intelligence', metadata line 'Publication 08 April 2019', and description naming COM(2019)168. — The Commission publication page independently establishes first official publication on 8 April 2019.

Version label

Final

Legal status

Non binding

Language

en

Research classifications

These are researcher classifications used to organise and analyse the corpus; they are not official EU metadata.

Record level

Principal

Version status

Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Coordination

Corpus tier

Core

Sectors

• General cross sector
• Health
• Transport and mobility
• Defence and security
• Public administration
• Consumer protection
• Research and innovation
• Industry and manufacturing
• Agriculture and environment
• Cybersecurity

Policy membership

• Coordinated European AI strategy
• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission / EUR-Lex · Title and sections 1-2, especially the paragraphs beginning 'Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential' and 'The purpose of this Communication is to launch a comprehensive piloting phase'. — The communication substantively addresses trustworthy, human-centric AI and launches implementation testing of ethical guidance for AI development and use.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission / EUR-Lex · Section 1 opening paragraph, which enumerates healthcare, energy, cars, farming and natural resources, climate, financial risk, manufacturing, fraud, cybersecurity, and law enforcement uses of AI. — The opening scope spans numerous public and private domains and is not confined to a single sector.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission / EUR-Lex · Document masthead and title block: 'EUROPEAN COMMISSION' and 'COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION'. — The official text identifies the European Commission as the issuing authoring institution.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Metadata line 'Publication 08 April 2019' and description identifying COM(2019)168. — An official Commission publication page identifies the publication date and exact official reference.
• Sector tags: Health · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, official linked download 58496, section 2.3, printed p.7 / PDF p.8; section 3, printed p.9 / PDF p.10. — Specifies a common cancer-image database for diagnostic algorithm training and a healthcare data-space initiative; not merely an introductory benefits claim.
• Sector tags: Transport and mobility · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 2.3, printed p.7 / PDF p.8; section 3, printed p.9 / PDF p.10. — Describes cross-border automated-vehicle testing corridors and application of ethics guidance to those projects, plus transport data spaces.
• Sector tags: Industry and manufacturing · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 3, printed p.9 / PDF p.10, action bullets. — Specifies AI manufacturing innovation hubs and industrial-manufacturing data spaces as concrete actions.
• Sector tags: Agriculture and environment · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 2.2.VI, printed p.6 / PDF p.7. — Recommends assessment of AI environmental impacts and ecological responsibility. This combined vocabulary label is supported by the environmental dimension, not by the introductory farming example alone.
• Sector tags: Cybersecurity · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 2.2.II, printed pp.4-5 / PDF pp.5-6. — Requires resilience to attacks and manipulation of data or algorithms, with fallback and security-by-design mechanisms.
• Sector tags: Research and innovation · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 3, printed p.9 / PDF p.10, first two action bullets. — Specifies AI research-excellence networks and innovation hubs with named scientific and technological priorities.
• Sector tags: Defence and security · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 2.3, footnote 15, printed p.7 / PDF p.8. — States a specific action to develop ethical guidance for evaluating AI-for-defence project proposals under the European Defence Fund; not an inferred extension of civilian rules.
• Sector tags: Public administration · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 2.3, printed p.7 / PDF p.8, two-strand pilot and strand (i). — Explicitly includes public administrations developing or using AI in the guideline pilot and provides for public-sector implementation feedback.
• Sector tags: Consumer protection · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · COM(2019) 168 final, download 58496, section 2.2.V, printed pp.5-6 / PDF pp.6-7. — Identifies harm from intentional exploitation of consumer biases and recommends addressing these design concerns from the start of AI development.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU institution
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

None recorded after review

Institutions and roles

• European Commission · Author · role evidence · Document masthead and title block: 'EUROPEAN COMMISSION' and 'COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION'.

Official sources and identifiers

CELEX

52019DC0168

• Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
• Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission / EUR-Lex

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

The communication links the AI HLEG ethics framework to the Commission's human-centric policy approach and public piloting process.

Researcher notes

Analytical selection, separate from the official EUR-Lex metadata.

Review status

verified

Relationships

• Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence · Based on · Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

  Official relationship · Verified

  Official rationale: COM(2019) 168 launches the piloting phase for the ethical guidance prepared by the High-Level Expert Group on AI.

  Evidence source: European Commission / EUR-Lex

• Automated decision-making: consumer protection and free movement · Related to · Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence

  Official relationship · Verified

  Official rationale: Locator: PDF p.1, introductory citation to COM(2019)0168 of 8 April 2019. This identifies the Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence communication as an explicitly referenced document, not as the same text or a binding legal basis.

  Evidence source: Publications Office of the European Union

Verification

Expanded evidence review

Verified

Reviewed by

Yichen Hao

Evidence review date

2026-09-05T10:34:49Z

The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions

• Last verified: 2026-09-05T10:34:49Z · Official Commission library page gives 'Publication 08 April 2019' and identifies the item as COM(2019) 168, Building Trust in Human Centric Artificial Intelligence.
• Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex English record confirms the title, COM(2019) 168 final, CELEX 52019DC0168 and document date 8 April 2019.