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In a keynote speech of 23 March 2026, Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, said that the ECB has expanded AI and machine-learning tools aimed at forecasting, alternative data and nowcasting, including quantile regression forests for density forecasts of inflation used in forecasting exercises. Copy claim link
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Date 2026-03-23 · event Records dated 2026 → Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The speaker states that the views are his own. The speech describes tools in use; it does not establish that they improve policy outcomes.
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AI and the euro area economy ↗ European Central Bank · 2026-03-23
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Source excerpt “Analytical projects focus on: (i) improving forecasting performance, especially by integrating high-frequency indicators;” Location in source Section “AI at the ECB”
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Source details and check notes Authors Philip R. Lane Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-02 (SHA-256 cefdf122822e3c94f13956f28c211bbd1a831f9ec3f4e63690cef469e8e0716e). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-11-06 (SHA-256 9c5d8d00abf49f636472ad4ea9b0b537ca55c6b42705532762e41c349ce63351; web pages are served with new markup on each request). HTML speech page as served on 2026-11-02 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-11-06 Language English (en) Attribution Philip R. Lane, “AI and the euro area economy”, 2026-03-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI and money (research/ai-money). The quotation (13 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-06. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
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Source excerpt “(iii) enhancing nowcasting and improving the detection of turning points.” Location in source Section “AI at the ECB”
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Source details and check notes Authors Philip R. Lane Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-02 (SHA-256 cefdf122822e3c94f13956f28c211bbd1a831f9ec3f4e63690cef469e8e0716e). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-11-06 (SHA-256 9c5d8d00abf49f636472ad4ea9b0b537ca55c6b42705532762e41c349ce63351; web pages are served with new markup on each request). HTML speech page as served on 2026-11-02 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-11-06 Language English (en) Attribution Philip R. Lane, “AI and the euro area economy”, 2026-03-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI and money (research/ai-money). The quotation (10 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-06. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
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Source excerpt “One well-established application is the deployment of quantile regression forests to produce density forecasts of inflation.” Location in source Section “AI at the ECB”
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Source details and check notes Authors Philip R. Lane Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-02 (SHA-256 cefdf122822e3c94f13956f28c211bbd1a831f9ec3f4e63690cef469e8e0716e). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-11-06 (SHA-256 9c5d8d00abf49f636472ad4ea9b0b537ca55c6b42705532762e41c349ce63351; web pages are served with new markup on each request). HTML speech page as served on 2026-11-02 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-11-06 Language English (en) Attribution Philip R. Lane, “AI and the euro area economy”, 2026-03-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI and money (research/ai-money). The quotation (16 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-06. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
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Source excerpt “The views expressed here are my own and should not be interpreted as representing the collective view of the Governing Council.” Location in source Footnote 1
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Source details and check notes Authors Philip R. Lane Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-02 (SHA-256 cefdf122822e3c94f13956f28c211bbd1a831f9ec3f4e63690cef469e8e0716e). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-11-06 (SHA-256 9c5d8d00abf49f636472ad4ea9b0b537ca55c6b42705532762e41c349ce63351; web pages are served with new markup on each request). HTML speech page as served on 2026-11-02 Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-11-06 Language English (en) Attribution Philip R. Lane, “AI and the euro area economy”, 2026-03-23. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, AI and money (research/ai-money). The text’s own statement of whose views it gives, shown beside the record; it is context, not support. The quotation matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-06. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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