An Artificial Intelligence Definition and Classification Framework for Public Sector Applications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) currently holds the spotlight amongst the interdisciplinary research fields that transcend the realm of academia. AI methods are enabled by a wide variety of technologies, methods and data, presenting a number of opportunities and challenges in a public decision-making context that differ by context of application. While the regulatory landscape surrounding AI governance is a pressing problem for scholars, the literature has often overlooked the role of the government as a user of AI. This article presents a classification framework for AI applications that facilitates the work in public sector (in the role of user) deployment. With our framework, we try to provide a lens to different deployment-related questions.