Overview

ISO/IEC 42001 / What ISO/IEC 42001 is

ISO/IEC 42001 is a certifiable international standard that lays out how to build and run a management system for governing artificial intelligence responsibly, using the same repeatable structure shared by other ISO management standards.

Think of it likeA recipe book for running a safe household kitchen: not the individual dishes, but the routines for who cooks, how you check ingredients, and how you keep everyone from getting sick.

In plain English

An organization adopts a structured, risk-based program for governing its AI, and can have an outside auditor certify that the program actually works, instead of just promising that it does.