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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