What Is ISO 31000?
ISO 31000 is the international standard providing principles and general guidelines for risk management across any type of organisation or risk.
ISO 31000, the international standard providing principles and general guidelines for risk management across any type of organisation or risk.
ISO 31000:2018 is the foundational, technology-neutral risk management standard that most enterprise risk frameworks build on. It is not AI-specific, but it underpins AI-specific standards such as ISO/IEC 23894 (AI risk management), so organisations with mature ISO 31000-based risk processes have a natural backbone onto which AI risk can be integrated.
Source: ISO 31000:2018
Plain-language explanation
ISO 31000:2018 is the foundational, technology-neutral risk management standard that most enterprise risk frameworks build on. It is not AI-specific, but it underpins AI-specific standards such as ISO/IEC 23894 (AI risk management), so organisations with mature ISO 31000-based risk processes have a natural backbone onto which AI risk can be integrated.
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