How It Works
Compliance
Meeting the rules and standards that apply to an AI system — a regulation's requirements, a company's own policy, or a contract's terms. In practice it means records, testing, disclosure, and the audits that prove them. A firm can 'govern' AI voluntarily and still be out of 'compliance' with a law.
Origin · no single documented coiner
A standard term in law, finance, and corporate management for adhering to rules and proving it. Applied to AI as regulations such as the EU AI Act added concrete obligations — risk assessment, documentation, human oversight — that firms must demonstrate. No single coiner.
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