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AI Watch: defining artificial intelligence

Official metadata

Official title
AI Watch. Defining Artificial Intelligence: Towards an operational definition and taxonomy of artificial intelligence
Official reference
JRC118163; EUR 30117 EN; DOI 10.2760/382730
Document type
Report
Document date
2020-02-27
Document date kind
Publication
Document-date evidence
European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Date available panel and embedded dc.date.available = 2020-02-27; linked English PDF and matching JRC identifier. — Official repository publication availability used as document-date fallback; no exact independent issue day is asserted.
Publication date
2020-02-27
Publication-date evidence
European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Date available / dc.date.available = 2020-02-27. — Release of the cited official repository manifestation; not asserted to be first publication on every EU host.
Additional official dates
  • First official publication: 2020-02-21 (day) · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · AI Watch Publication date:21 February2020. Earlier release on this host; the cited repository manifestation was available27 February. Not a claim of exhaustive first release across all EU hosts.
Version label
Published report
Legal status
Non binding
Legal-status evidence
European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.2, scientific-report disclaimer. — Evidence-based scientific support report, expressly not a Commission policy position or binding legal act.
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
  • General cross sector
  • Research and innovation
Policy membership
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.8 (printed p.3), Abstract; pp.9-11, Executive summary: operational AI taxonomy for policy, research and industry monitoring. — AI is the substantive object of this policy-support report.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.8 (printed p.3), Abstract; pp.9-11, Executive summary: operational AI taxonomy for policy, research and industry monitoring. — Researcher sector classification based on the report's substantive scope.
  • Sector tags: Research and innovation · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.8 (printed p.3), Abstract; pp.9-11, Executive summary: operational AI taxonomy for policy, research and industry monitoring. — Researcher sector classification based on the report's substantive scope.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.2 report-by-JRC statement; named author credits. — JRC institutional report, with named personal authors retained; hosting alone is not authorship.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Public repository availability and linked English manifestation. — Official institutional publication record.

Production provenance

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

Official sources and identifiers

  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission, Joint Research Centre

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Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
PDF p.8 (printed p.3), Abstract; pp.9-11, Executive summary: operational AI taxonomy for policy, research and industry monitoring.
Researcher notes
Repository Date available / dc.date.available is 27 February 2020 for the cited JRC manifestation. The AI Watch webpage labels 21 February 2020, and dates its later file link 21 January 2022; these are distinct source dates, not evidence of a different report or an earlier issue day. No exact issue day appears in the report. At the initial review on 6 September 2026, concept and policy annotations were uncompleted. Concept tags were subsequently populated in the 7 September 2026 concept review. Policy-group membership was added in the 12 September 2026 navigation review; membership does not establish a legal relationship.
Review status
verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-06T22:54:17Z

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

  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T23:01:39Z · Publication date 21 February 2020 is earlier than repository availability27 February, preserved separately. Later linked file date21 January2022 is not the report issue. SHA-256 1d5a6a583133434703d32de91a729afec4122b2e8518a40479b5e4ba35a06ab8; receipt in research/reviews/2026-09-06-candidate-snapshot/root-source-checks.json.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T22:54:17Z · JRC title, identity, Date available, embedded dc.date.available, author list and linked PDF inspected. Captured bytes SHA-256 27a0326d9833eb01c6ea657689899571a47a9b5fc5c8495cc4b2c52b271bbf61; receipt in research/reviews/2026-09-06-candidate-snapshot/root-source-checks.json. Local capture, not a permanent public archive.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T22:54:17Z · English PDF cover, imprint, author credits and cited substantive sections inspected. Captured bytes SHA-256 322affce7f6f6cf87a1ad9c8a7c042bb5e35c4a24b783586f693318d8fde3680; receipt in research/reviews/2026-09-06-candidate-snapshot/root-source-checks.json. Local capture, not a permanent public archive.

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