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Governance, Law and Regulation

Transparency and Disclosure Obligations

Also called: Disclosure

The growing set of requirements to tell people when they are dealing with AI. That covers disclosing that a chatbot is not a person, labelling synthetic images and video, and in some contexts explaining that an automated system contributed to a decision about someone and what they can do about it. The direction of travel is consistent across jurisdictions even where the detail differs.

Technical view

Requirements arrive from several directions at once: AI-specific regulation, existing data protection law covering automated decision-making and the right to meaningful information about the logic involved, consumer protection rules on misleading practices, and sector regulators. Implementation questions include where disclosure appears and whether it is durable, how synthetic media is marked in ways that survive redistribution, and what a meaningful explanation consists of for a model that is not interpretable, which in practice usually means describing inputs, purpose and review process rather than mechanism.


Part of AI Terminology Index, section: Governance, Law and Regulation.

How it connects

Transparency and Disclosure Obligations links to 11 other terms. The faint lines are links between those terms. See it in the full graph.

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