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What is going on in JTC 21?
The EU AI Act standards that still haven’t reached public enquiry.
A couple of months ago, I was quite bullish about progress in JTC 21, and indeed prEN 18229-1 (Logging) has completed Enquiry and prEN 18229-3 (Human Oversight) is underway...
Are AI systems really always changing? Or do we just need to turn down the temperature.
You can’t use conventional testing, assurance and conformity assessment techniques on systems that are always changing. Right? Right?
Sometimes when I have an in-depth conversation about testing, conformity assessment, etc on AI systems wi...
Assurance is an outcome. Conformity assessment is how you get there.
The former UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology defines AI assurance, in essence, as the measuring, evaluating and communicating of AI systems’ trustworthiness. Other recent framings widen that out further, describing assura...
ISO/IEC 4213 2nd edition reaches Draft International Standard stage
From a technical specification to the standard nobody can avoid
ISO/IEC DIS 4213, “Performance measurement for AI classification, regression, clustering and recommendation tasks,” went to ballot on 28 July 2026 and closes 20 October 2026....
prEN 18229-3 reaches Enquiry
The standard that admits human oversight sometimes cannot work
prEN 18229-3, the human oversight standard under JTC 21, reached CEN Enquiry ballot. It is Part 3 of the AI trustworthiness framework, sitting alongside prEN 18229-1 (logging,...
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Chair of the AIQI Consortium aiqi.org; Standards Convenor / Project Leader; training on EU AI Act; Author; Emdash user.
AI ethicist. Founder of BeEthical. President of the Association of AI Ethicists. Convenor of CEN/CENELEC JTC21 WG4 and an expert in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42. Teaches at Università Cattolica (Milan). Research in information ethics and semantic capital.
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