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What Is ISO/IEC 23053?

ISO/IEC 23053 is the international standard, published in 2022, that provides a framework and common terminology for describing AI systems that use machine learning.

Definition

ISO/IEC 23053the international standard, published in 2022, that provides a framework and common terminology for describing AI systems that use machine learning.

ISO/IEC 23053 gives a shared vocabulary and reference model for ML-based AI systems — components, the ML pipeline, and the ML process — so technical and non-technical stakeholders can describe systems consistently. It sits alongside ISO/IEC 22989 (concepts and terminology) and beneath ISO/IEC 42001 (the management system) in the SC 42 standards stack.

Source: ISO/IEC 23053:2022

Plain-language explanation

ISO/IEC 23053 gives a shared vocabulary and reference model for ML-based AI systems — components, the ML pipeline, and the ML process — so technical and non-technical stakeholders can describe systems consistently. It sits alongside ISO/IEC 22989 (concepts and terminology) and beneath ISO/IEC 42001 (the management system) in the SC 42 standards stack.

Primary source: ISO/IEC 23053:2022

Related terms

ISO/IEC 22989 ISO/IEC 5259 ISO/IEC TR 24028 Machine Learning

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