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EESC opinion on AI consequences

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Official metadata

Official title
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Artificial intelligence — The consequences of artificial intelligence on the (digital) single market, production, consumption, employment and society (own-initiative opinion)
Official reference
2017/C 288/01
Document type
Opinion
Document date
2017-05-31
Document date kind
Institutional adoption
Document-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · Adoption table: Adopted at plenary — EESC plenary adoption, distinct from section adoption.
Publication date
2017-08-31
Publication-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · OJ C 288/1 running header and citation — Original OJ publication date.
Version label
Final published text
Legal status
Non binding
Legal-status evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · Heading and legal-basis table — Own-initiative advisory opinion; non-binding.
Language
en

Research classifications

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Record level
Principal
Version status
Final
Temporal collection
Historical lineage
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Agenda setting
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Employment and labour
Policy membership

    Classification evidence

    Production provenance

    Provenance tags
    • Authored by an EU agency or body
    • Officially published
    Named bibliographic authors
    None recorded after review
    Institutions and roles

    Official sources and identifiers

    CELEX
    52016IE5369
    OJ reference
    OJ C 288, 31.8.2017, pp. 1–9
    • Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union

    Research assessment

    Inclusion rationale
    Substantive AI policy content verified in the cited primary English text.
    Researcher notes
    Editorial classifications are AI-assisted assessments, separate from official metadata. Rapporteur: Catelijne Muller (adoption table), not substituted for institutional author. Canonical reference follows the cited OJ manifestation; internal tracking identifiers retained here from prior handoff: INT/806; INT/806-EESC-2016-05369-00-00-AC-TRA (not independently reverified in this pass).
    Review status
    verified

    Relationships

    No additional published relationships touch this record.

    Verification

    Expanded evidence review
    Verified
    Reviewed by
    Yichen Hao
    Evidence review date
    2026-09-05T23:45:09Z

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

    • Last verified: 2026-09-05T23:45:09Z · Full original English OJ opinion opened. Title/adoption table, rapporteur and paragraphs 1.1–1.14 reviewed.

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