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AI in science — Scientific Opinion No. 15 (first edition)

Official metadata

Official title
Successful and timely uptake of Artificial Intelligence in science in the EU
Official reference
Scientific Opinion No. 15; DOI 10.2777/08845; ISBN 978-92-68-10084-4; KI-05-23-478-EN-N
Document type
Opinion
Document date
2024-03-27
Document date kind
Document issue
Document-date evidence
ALLEA (All European Academies) · PDF p.3, title page: Brussels, 27 March 2024. — The original first edition's printed issue date, inspected in the preserved ALLEA copy and independently corroborated by KNAW p.3; admitted as institutional archive evidence with separate official release corroboration.
Publication date
2024-04-15
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · Commission announcement dated 15 April 2024, opening release statement and handover description. — Official announcement establishes the original Scientific Opinion No. 15 public release on 15 April 2024, separately from its March issue date.
Additional official dates
Version label
First edition
Legal status
Non binding
Legal-status evidence
European Commission · Commission announcement, opening paragraph: independent and non-binding recommendations; advice may inform a future strategy. — Scientific advice carries no binding legal force and is not an adopted Commission strategy. The edition-specific PDF p.2 additionally disclaims representation of the Commission's official position.
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
Agenda setting
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • Research and innovation
Policy membership
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · ALLEA (All European Academies) · Section 1.2, PDF pp.14-15 / printed pp.12-13; recommendations 1-4, PDF pp.35-48 / printed pp.33-46. — The mandate and recommendations directly address responsible AI use in science, funding, infrastructure, research data and researcher capabilities.
  • Sector tags: Research and innovation · ALLEA (All European Academies) · Recommendations 1-4, PDF pp.35-48 / printed pp.33-46, including research governance, AI resources, infrastructures, training and research assessment. — Research and innovation is the opinion's central substantive sector.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU expert group · ALLEA (All European Academies) · PDF pp.2-3, group author attribution; PDF p.7 / printed p.5, adoption and endorsement. — The Group of Chief Scientific Advisors authored and adopted this independent opinion; Commission support does not establish Commission strategy authorship.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Commission announcement of 15 April 2024, opening release statement and Scientific Opinion No. 15 identification. — The Commission confirms the original opinion's release; original full-text metadata is separately supported by the labelled institutional archive copies.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU expert group
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
Institutions and roles

Official sources and identifiers

Supplementary preserved originals

These academy-hosted copies preserve the original edition. They are supplementary evidence, not official EU hosts, and are used together with the official release record above.

  • Preserved original: ALLEA (All European Academies)

    Institutional archive supplement, not an official EU host. Retrieved complete original first edition: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 14,379,324 bytes, 102 PDF pages. PDF pp.2-3 establish first-edition imprint and issue date. Every page's extracted text equals the independently retrieved KNAW copy; the files are not byte-identical. Used under the approved bounded supplement allowance with independent Commission release evidence. Comparison is researcher-produced, not an official correction schedule; retained hash is recorded in the document snapshot.

  • Preserved original: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

    Institutional archive supplement, not an official EU host. Retrieved complete original first edition: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 2,898,243 bytes, 102 PDF pages. PDF pp.2-3 independently corroborate original imprint and issue date. Every page's extracted text equals the ALLEA copy, although PDF bytes differ. This establishes extracted-text equality only, not identical graphics, annotations, links or accessibility tags. Used with independent Commission release evidence under the approved bounded supplement allowance; retained hash is recorded in the document snapshot.

Previous and next versions

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Independent scientific advice substantively addresses responsible AI uptake in science, research infrastructure, data and models, funding, researcher skills and research assessment.
Researcher notes
Original first edition admitted using the independently verified Commission release of 15 April 2024 plus clearly labelled ALLEA and KNAW institutional archive supplements. Original issue date, imprint, identifiers and text are read from those preserved copies, not a newly recovered EU-hosted original PDF. Both are 102 PDF pages; their extracted text agrees page by page although their bytes differ. The opinion is non-binding independent advice, not an adopted Commission strategy. DG RTD support and Publications Office publication are distinct from GCSA authorship. SAPEA Evidence Review Report No. 13 supports this opinion but is a separate work, not its original edition or an official correction notice. Classification is an AI-assisted research assessment. Publication cutoff remains 2026-09-04.
Review status
verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-06T02:24:52Z

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

  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T02:11:26.654360+00:00 · Institutional archive supplement, not an official EU host. Retrieved complete original first edition: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 14,379,324 bytes, 102 PDF pages. PDF pp.2-3 establish first-edition imprint and issue date. Every page's extracted text equals the independently retrieved KNAW copy; the files are not byte-identical. Used under the approved bounded supplement allowance with independent Commission release evidence. Comparison is researcher-produced, not an official correction schedule; retained hash is recorded in the document snapshot.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T02:11:26.654360+00:00 · Institutional archive supplement, not an official EU host. Retrieved complete original first edition: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 2,898,243 bytes, 102 PDF pages. PDF pp.2-3 independently corroborate original imprint and issue date. Every page's extracted text equals the ALLEA copy, although PDF bytes differ. This establishes extracted-text equality only, not identical graphics, annotations, links or accessibility tags. Used with independent Commission release evidence under the approved bounded supplement allowance; retained hash is recorded in the document snapshot.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T01:16:58Z · Commission announcement of 15 April 2024: heading, release statement, handover, recommendations and background inspected. Identifies Scientific Opinion No. 15, the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors and independent, non-binding recommendations. Supports the original public release; it does not supply a recovered original PDF or the corrected edition's June publication date.

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