ISO/IEC 4213 2nd edition reaches Draft International Standard stage
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prEN 18229-3 reaches Enquiry
The standard that admits human oversight sometimes cannot work
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What changed since the public enquiry version?
prEN ISO/IEC DIS 23282: How to measure whether Natural Language AI is accurate
What the new NLP evaluation standard covers, and why providers of high-risk and general-purpose AI should read it
Two standards, one architecture: FprEN ISO/IEC FDIS 24970 and prEN 18229-1
Two significant milestones landed this spring serving both the state of the art and Article 12 of the EU AI Act.
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This article builds on the paper "AI Agents under EU Law" and a keynote presentation I gave to market surveillance authorities in May
You can't do AI ethics without AI ethicists
EN 18274 approaches publication
The Commission reviewed its AI list. Therapy chatbots are the problem it couldn’t classify.
Self-help therapy chatbots are flagged for monitoring.
First EU AI Act cases in front of the courts
C-806/24 and C-245/25 are the first cases at the CJEU. Here’s what the judges will be deciding.
A general intended purpose includes all high risk use cases by default
The Commission’s guidance on high-risk classification dropped consequential clarification on intended purpose.
James Gealy On AI Safety Standards For Frontier Models
In this episode, hosts Michael Mainelli and Adam Leon Smith welcome James Gealy, Standardization Lead at Safer AI, a French NGO focused on AI risk modelling.
The Standard that watches the watcher
ISO/IEC DIS 25029 and the governance of AI-enhanced nudging
The pace is picking up - JTC 21 Timeline Update – May 2026
More than half of the standards responding to the EU AI Act are now in public enquiry, or later in the process.
prEN 18282 heads to Enquiry: Cybersecurity specifications for AI Systems
The latest harmonised standard to go to public enquiry supports compliance with Article 15
What was actually agreed in the Omnibus and what does it mean?
Analysis of the full leaked compromise
prEN 18228 heads to Enquiry: the product-safety answer to AI risk management
The draft harmonised standard on AI risk management has reached the CEN Enquiry stage. Here’s what practitioners should notice about how it defines risk, what counts as a risk control, and what to do
Mike Thieme On Making AI Standards Work For Busy Professionals
In this episode, hosts Michael Mainelli and Adam Leon Smith welcome Mike Thieme, Managing Director and Cloud Advisory Lead at Accenture.
ISO/IEC 25059 gets a rewrite: AI quality models expand beyond the product
The SQuaRE quality model for AI systems revision completes enquiry
AI Agents Under EU Law: what providers actually have to do
High-risk agentic systems with untraceable behavioural drift cannot currently satisfy the essential requirements of the AI Act