Plain-language AI and governance terms for humans navigating AI with their values intact.

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How to use this dictionary

Search the database below when a term comes up in a reading, live session, vendor conversation, or workplace AI discussion.
Use the Category filter to browse by learning path: AI Basics, Accuracy & Evaluation, Bias & Privacy Rights, Deployment & Governance, or Trust & Synthetic Media.
Treat definitions as working language. Laws, standards, vendors, and local policies may define terms differently.
For legal, employment, health, finance, immigration, education, safety, or rights-related decisions, check the primary source and involve the accountable human owner.

RAP learner paths

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Learners: use this as a quick translation layer for course readings, live sessions, and workplace conversations.

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Builders: start with intended purpose, data quality, deployment readiness, monitoring, rollback, least privilege, and agentic containment.

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Leaders and facilitators: use the governance and rights terms to turn abstract AI risk into accountable roles, evidence, and review habits.

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Educators: pull terms into prompts, discussions, artifact reviews, and reflection activities without turning the course into a giant encyclopedia.

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