Understanding AI Management
The international standard for responsible AI systems
The international standard for AI management systems
The requirements of ISO 42001 offer valuable guidance for anyone using AI-powered software in their organization. The standard provides a framework for making responsibilities, risks, and measures transparent.
Define the scope, relevant factors, stakeholder requirements, objectives of the AI management system, and roles
Get a clear picture: Where and how is AI being used? (Unfortunately, the standard refers only vaguely to "AI systems")
Review and assess 39 mandatory controls for every AI system
Continuous review of the system's effectiveness and ongoing improvement
Unfortunately, there is a problem: like many of its related standards, ISO 42001 is not particularly grounded in real-world practice.
One thing is important to understand: an audit examines the management system, i.e., the documentation of processes, risks, etc. It does NOT verify whether you have eliminated all risks, only how well you have documented them.
Practice before paperwork
Our approach is to build a system that works in practice and to derive the requirements for an audit (internal or external) from it.
Documentation is produced to pass the audit. The actual benefit of ISO 42001 (risk awareness, transparency) is often lost along the way.
We capture and assess software solutions from both a technical and a business perspective. The system should not only be audit-compliant but also genuinely useful in practice.
"We don't just want to help our clients obtain the certificate. We want our clients to be able to continue the process autonomously and on their own."
Neither auditor training nor the certification of organizations conveys any AI expertise. The standard merely refers to "AI systems" without defining what that means in technical terms.
Yet these "AI systems" are then assessed against 39 controls. To do that properly, you would need a better (technical) understanding of them.
We understand what we audit - technically and from a business perspective
Many years of experience in IT inventory and software asset management
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