AI Governance
ISO/IEC 42001
Artificial Intelligence Management System
A management system standard for artificial intelligence, built on the same Annex SL structure as ISO/IEC 27001: context, leadership, planning, support, operation, evaluation, improvement, with AI-specific controls covering impact assessment, data for AI systems, and lifecycle documentation.
It does not make you AI Act compliant on its own; the Act's harmonised standards are being written by CEN-CENELEC. But it is the management system regulators, customers and insurers can already audit against, and its documentation obligations line up closely with the Act's technical documentation requirements.
At a glance
- Category
- AI Governance
- Jurisdiction
- Global
- Governance
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
- Status
- Published December 2023; certifiable
- First released
- 2023
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under AI Governance.
- ISO/IEC 23894: AI Risk Management Guidance
- NIST AI RMF: AI Risk Management Framework
- JTC 21: CEN-CENELEC JTC 21: Harmonised European Standards for AI
- ISO/IEC 5259: Data Quality for Analytics and Machine Learning
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