JRC study for a correct taxonomy of AI by Raffaella Aghemo

BY RAFFAELLA AGHEMO 2022 APRIL Joint Research Centre study for a correct taxonomy of Artificial Intelligence WRITTEN BY Raffaella Aghemo, Lawyer In the context of AI Watch, the knowledge service of the European Commission to monitor the development, adoption and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Europe, launched in December 2018, is the recent study carried out by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), entitled "AI Watch - Defining Artificial Intelligence 2.0 - Towards an operational definition and taxonomy for the AI landscape". Furthermore, in April 2021, the European Commission proposed a set of actions to promote excellence in AI and rules to ensure that the technology is trusted. The taxonomy of AI is a classification of the technology itself with concepts originating mainly in mathematics, logic, philosophy and information theory, which has Russel and Norvig's taxonomy as its starting point, and is found in several studies from different perspectives. The classification in question first divides AI into weak or narrow AI (Weak or Narrow AI - ANI) and strong or General AI (AGI). ANI is the type of AI that exists today.