§ 850.202 AI system.

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Title 31—Money and Finance: Treasury > Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Money and Finance > CHAPTER VIII—OFFICE OF INVESTMENT SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY > PART 850—PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO U.S. INVESTMENTS IN CERTAIN NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS IN COUNTRIES OF CONCERN > Subpart B—Definitions

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The term AI system means:

(a) A machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments—i.e., a system that:

(1) Uses data inputs to perceive real and virtual environments;

(2) Abstracts such perceptions into models through automated or algorithmic statistical analysis; and

(3) Uses model inference to make a classification, prediction, recommendation, or decision.

(b) Any data system, software, hardware, application, tool, or utility that operates in whole or in part using a system described in paragraph (a) of this section.

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