Glossary terms starting with A
8 terms in our enterprise AI glossary that start with the letter A. Each entry links to a full definition with how it applies in regulated enterprise work.
- ABA Formal Opinion 512RegulationABA Formal Opinion 512 is the American Bar Association's 2024 ethical guidance on lawyers' use of generative AI, addressing competence, confidentiality, supervision, fees, and candor.
- Agentic AIArchitectureAgentic AI refers to systems that plan multi-step actions, call external tools, and operate with some autonomy toward a goal, rather than producing a single response to a single prompt.
- AI Audit TrailGovernanceAn AI audit trail is the persistent, tamper-evident record of every input, output, tool call, model version, and decision an AI system has made, sufficient to reconstruct any past interaction.
- AI Risk ManagementGovernanceAI risk management is the discipline of identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring the harms an AI system can cause across its lifecycle.
- AI ROIBusinessAI ROI is the measurable financial return on an AI investment, calculated as the value generated (cost savings, revenue uplift, risk reduction) net of total cost of ownership.
- AI Solutions PartnerBusinessAn AI solutions partner is an external firm that designs, builds, and operates AI systems for an enterprise on a long-term partnership basis rather than a project basis.
- AIOpsProductionAIOps is the application of AI and machine learning to IT operations data, used to detect anomalies, correlate alerts, and automate incident response.
- Artificial IntelligenceFoundationalArtificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer systems that perform tasks normally associated with human cognition: perception, reasoning, language understanding, and decision-making.
All glossary terms - Updated 2026-04-27.