2 posts tagged with "ISO 42001"

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — published December 2023 — is the first international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS). It provides a framework for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving AI governance within organizations. Think of it as ISO 27001, but with AI as the subject rather than information security.

For organizations subject to the EU AI Act, Singapore's AI Verify framework, or any regulator that accepts ISO standards as evidence of conformance, ISO 42001 is becoming the certification path of choice. The standard was built to align with other ISO management system standards (ISO 27001, ISO 9001) — if your organization already has one, the implementation effort for ISO 42001 is substantially lower.

NIST published the AI Risk Management Framework in January 2023. It's now referenced by the EU AI Act's technical standards bodies, DoD AI ethics guidelines, the Singapore MAS framework, and dozens of sector-specific AI governance documents. It's become the shared vocabulary for AI risk management — and it's voluntary, which means the organizations that implement it well get a structural advantage when regulators start asking questions.

The framework has four core functions: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage. Each maps directly to how UAPK structures AI agent governance.