AI glossary - terms beginning with A

This hub lists the enterprise AI glossary terms in the Impetora reference that begin with the letter A. Each entry links to a full vendor-neutral definition with how the concept applies in regulated enterprise work.

8 terms

What A-words matter in enterprise AI?

ABA Formal Opinion 512

Regulation

ABA 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 AI

Architecture

Agentic 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 Trail

Governance

An 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 Management

Governance

AI risk management is the discipline of identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring the harms an AI system can cause across its lifecycle.

AI ROI

Business

AI 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 Partner

Business

An 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.

AIOps

Production

AIOps is the application of AI and machine learning to IT operations data, used to detect anomalies, correlate alerts, and automate incident response.

Artificial Intelligence

Foundational

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer systems that perform tasks normally associated with human cognition: perception, reasoning, language understanding, and decision-making.

Updated 2026-04-27. Markdown twin: /md/glossary/letter/a.