ISO/IEC 42001 establishes a certifiable AI management standard
ISO and IEC published the first management-system standard for artificial intelligence, developed in JTC 1/SC 42 and structured on the same clauses as the information-security and quality management standards so that organisations can be audited and certified against it. Like the NIST framework, it governs process — risk management, impact assessment, lifecycle control, supplier oversight — rather than system performance.
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- AI standards bodies · organisation · not located
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AI standardisation — ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 and ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI 100-1, and CEN-CENELEC JTC 21
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 was created in 2017 with its inaugural meeting in April 2018 and is the primary international committee for AI standardisation; ISO/IEC 42001:2023, published in December 2023, is the first AI management-system standard and adopts the clause structure of other ISO management-system standards so that organisations can be certified against it; NIST published the voluntary AI Risk Management Framework (AI 100-1) in January 2023, organised around the Govern, Map, Measure and Manage functions; CEN-CENELEC established JTC 21 in June 2021 to draft European standards including the harmonised standards supporting the EU AI Act, and announced measures in October 2025 to accelerate that work. V55 verification basis: none of these pages was fetched and ISO/IEC 42001 is paywalled and was not consulted. Every date and description above was carried in search results attributing it to the named body's own pages or documents; the standard's contents are described from secondary summaries.
ISO and IEC; United States National Institute of Standards and Technology; CEN-CENELEC · 2017–2025 · Partly verified
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, https://www.iso.org/committee/6794475.html ; ISO/IEC 42001:2023, https://www.iso.org/standard/42001 ; NIST, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0), NIST AI 100-1, January 2023, https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/nist.ai.100-1.pdf ; CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, https://www.cencenelec.eu/areas-of-work/cen-cenelec-topics/artificial-intelligence/ and its October 2025 statement on accelerating AI standards development
Recorded on AI standards bodies
- NIST publishes a voluntary AI risk management framework
- ISO/IEC 42001 establishes a certifiable AI management standard
- The EU Artificial Intelligence Act enters into force
- The Commission proposes deferring the high-risk obligations
- High-risk obligations under the AI Act become applicable
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- The Commission proposes deferring the high-risk obligations · 2025-11-19
- The EU Artificial Intelligence Act enters into force · 2024-08-01
- High-risk obligations under the AI Act become applicable · 2027-12-02 (statutory deadline)
- NIST publishes a voluntary AI risk management framework · 2023-01