AI glossary - terms beginning with E

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

6 terms

What E-words matter in enterprise AI?

EIOPA AI Statement

Regulation

EIOPA's Statement on the use of artificial intelligence in the insurance sector is the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's supervisory expectations for AI deployment by insurers and intermediaries.

Embedding

Architecture

An embedding is a dense numerical vector that represents a piece of content (text, image, audio) in a way that semantically similar items end up close together in the vector space.

Enterprise AI

Business

Enterprise AI is AI deployed inside a large organisation, integrated with systems of record, governed by enterprise risk and compliance, and accountable to multiple stakeholders.

EU AI Act

Regulation

The EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) is the European Union's horizontal regulation for AI, classifying systems by risk and imposing obligations on providers, deployers, importers, and distributors.

Evaluation Harness

Production

An evaluation harness is the test framework used to measure an AI system against a fixed set of inputs, expected outputs, and metrics, run on every change.

Explainable AI (XAI)

Governance

Explainable AI (XAI) is the set of techniques that make an AI system's outputs and behaviour understandable to humans, supporting trust, debugging, and regulatory compliance.

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