This glossary defines the vocabulary of Landscape in the book's own words: the names and scales of Contour, the notation, exactly as docs/NOTATION.md gives them; the terms of the book's method, the test, the grades of source, the three labels for statements about the future and the nine instincts; the terms of the landscape itself, from architecture as code and the registers an organisation already keeps to the European instruments that place duties on named people; and the two fictional organisations that walk through every chapter. Each entry ends with the chapter in which the term is introduced, in brackets. Terms adopted from the seven volumes of The Transformed Architecture are marked with the volume and chapter they come from ("adopted from AI Governance, Chapter 2"); every such term is defined here and in the chapter that introduces it, so that the reader never needs the volume. Terms without such a mark are this book's own. Systems are described by what they do, they rank, draft, route, flag or execute, never by what they want. Statements about law name the instrument and the article and are organisational and architectural implications, not legal advice.
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About Landscape
Landscape is a companion to The Transformed Architecture. It examines what happens when artificial intelligence takes the manager's chair: algorithmic management of direction, evaluation, consequence, development and care, the effects on people, the management of AI agents, Europe's legal answer, and how to design an accountable AI boss, for European enterprises and public authorities.
It builds on the conclusions of Architecture as Code, AI Governance, AI Platform and Security, AI Red Team, AI Threat and The Transformed Security Architect.
Executives, line managers, HR and people leaders, works councils and trade unions, public employers, architects and AI governance leads, data protection and legal officers, procurement and programme leaders, and risk, compliance and audit.
Gunnar Nordqvist
Conceived, directed and published the books of The Transformed Architecture.
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Glossary: Glossary in Landscape gives the detailed explanations, practical examples and implementation patterns behind this summary.
This whitepaper belongs to “Appendices” and is one of 26 drawn from the manuscript.