Frequently asked questions

The AI Governance Standards Board is a practitioner-led standard-setter for enterprise AI governance. It develops open standards for how organizations own, measure, secure and evidence their use of AI, including agents, usage, token cost and personal data.

Those frameworks set out what an AI management system should address. AIGS standards are narrower and more operational: they state measurable requirements, the evidence that proves them, and the metrics to report. The Framework maps each AIGS domain to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act deployer duties and NYDFS Part 500.

Accounting standards made financial reporting comparable and trustworthy through independent boards, public due process, and a written basis for every decision. AI governance needs the same: consistent definitions, open comment, and reasoning anyone can read.

No. AIGS standards are voluntary. Organizations may adopt them, and regulators, auditors or insurers may choose to reference them.

Technical Working Groups of member practitioners draft them, the Secretariat edits them, and the Standards Board votes to issue them. At least five of seven Board members must agree.

Yes, as Observers. Vendors can read everything, attend briefings and submit comment letters with their interests disclosed. They cannot vote, chair working groups or sit on the Standards Board.

The founding sponsor is AIVONS. All sponsorship is disclosed on the Independence page. Sponsors have no vote, and from year three no single sponsor may provide more than 25% of funding.

They must not. Standards describe outcomes and never name a product. The founding drafts were prepared by the Secretariat from practical control experience, including the sponsor's, and this is disclosed in each basis for conclusions. Comment letters are the check: any requirement that only one product can meet should be challenged and will be redeliberated.

Sign in and use the comment letter form, or click the comment button at the end of any standard. The comment period for each founding draft is at least 60 days.

Yes, during the founding period. Any future fees will be published in advance and will not be a condition for commenting on drafts.

Not yet. Conformance claims will be possible only against issued standards, not exposure drafts. Organizations are welcome to pilot the drafts and share what they learn.

See the Privacy Notice. In short: we collect only what is needed to run membership, member content is visible only to approved members, and we never sell data.