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AI receipt
also verifiable AI receipt or AI governance receipt or governance receipt
Definition of AI receipt
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: a signed, tamper-evident record of an AI interaction, action, or control decision that captures enough information for another party to check what was reported, who or what produced the record, and whether it has been altered
- The hospital required an AI receipt for every automated prescription decision so an independent evaluator could verify which safeguards were reported as active.
- Instead of storing the patient's raw prompt, the AI receipt recorded cryptographic hashes, the model and deployment identifiers, the policy decision, and the signer's identity.
Two meanings, one word
In everyday English
A receipt is a record showing that a transaction occurred and what was exchanged, paid, or acknowledged.
In AI
A signed, tamper-evident record of an AI interaction, action, or control decision that captures enough information for another party to check what was reported, who or…
Origin & history
The receipt metaphor emerged in AI provenance and runtime-governance work as developers sought portable evidence for model calls and agent actions. By 2026, research systems and public specifications were using terms such as governance receipt, policy-decision receipt, route receipt, and AI receipt. The OVERT specification, released in 2026, defines a compact signed receipt for a covered AI runtime event and its reported control outcome.
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"AI receipt." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/ai-receipt/. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.