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AI Watch: AI in public services

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Official metadata

Official title
AI Watch - Artificial Intelligence in public services: Overview of the use and impact of AI in public services in the EU
Official reference
JRC120399; EUR 30255 EN; DOI 10.2760/039619
Document type
Report
Document date
2020-07-02
Document date kind
Publication
Document-date evidence
European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Date available panel and embedded dc.date.available = 2020-07-02; 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
2020-07-02
Publication-date evidence
European Commission, Joint Research Centre · Date available / dc.date.available = 2020-07-02. — Release of the cited official repository manifestation; not asserted to be first publication on every EU host.
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

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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
  • Public administration
Policy membership
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.7 (printed p.5), Executive summary: mapping AI use in public services, governance, risks and opportunities across European administrations. — AI is the substantive object of this policy-support report.
  • Sector tags: Public administration · European Commission, Joint Research Centre · PDF p.7 (printed p.5), Executive summary: mapping AI use in public services, governance, risks and opportunities across European administrations. — 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

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
PDF p.7 (printed p.5), Executive summary: mapping AI use in public services, governance, risks and opportunities across European administrations.
Researcher notes
Repository availability dates the cited publication to 2 July 2020. The filename contains 30062020, but a filename is not publication evidence. Individual authors include an external expert; their credits are not replaced by sole Commission authorship. 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. Broad policy-group membership was subsequently recorded on 12 September 2026. This editorial grouping does not establish a legal or procedural relationship.
Review status
verified

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Verification

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

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