⚡ Quick Summary
The ISO/IEC AI Standards: Comprehensive Reference (updated March 2026) is a practitioner guide and reference map compiled by Synergy Compliance Consulting (SCC) SARL. It catalogues more than 35 published international standards established by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 and affiliated committees. The reference provides a structured snapshot of the global AI standardization landscape, mapping out core standards across governance, risk, trustworthiness, data quality, lifecycle management, safety, sustainability, and conformity assessment.
🧩 What's Covered
The reference map groups published international AI standards into distinct functional domains:
- Foundational & Frameworks: Core terminology, concepts, and architectural foundations, including ISO/IEC 22989:2022 (Concepts and Terminology), ISO/IEC 23053:2022 (Framework for AI Systems Using ML), ISO/IEC 5338:2023 (AI System Life Cycle Processes), ISO/IEC 5339:2024 (Guidance for AI Applications), ISO/IEC 5392:2024 (Reference Architecture - Knowledge Engineering), ISO/IEC 20546:2019 (Big Data Vocabulary), and the ISO/IEC TR 20547 series (Big Data Reference Architecture).
- Governance & Management: Organizational mechanisms and risk oversight, featuring ISO/IEC 42001:2023 (AI Management System Requirements), ISO/IEC 23894:2023 (AI Risk Management), ISO/IEC 38507:2022 (Governance of IT - AI Implications), ISO/IEC 42005:2025 (AI System Impact Assessment), ISO/IEC 12792:2025 (Transparency Taxonomy of AI Systems), and ISO/IEC TR 24368:2022 (Ethical and Societal Concerns Overview).
- Trustworthiness & Quality: Technical controls and evaluation models, including ISO/IEC TR 24028:2020 (Trustworthiness Overview), ISO/IEC TR 24027:2021 (Bias in AI Systems), ISO/IEC TR 24029-1:2021 and ISO/IEC 24029-2:2023 (Neural Network Robustness and Formal Methods), ISO/IEC 25059:2023 and ISO/IEC TS 25058:2024 (SQuaRE Quality Models), ISO/IEC TS 8200:2024 (Controllability of Automated AI Systems), and ISO/IEC TS 6254:2025 (Explainability & Interpretability).
- Data Quality & Big Data: The comprehensive ISO/IEC 5259 multipart series (Parts 1–5 spanning Overview, Requirements & Measurement, Management, Provenance, and Governance Framework), alongside ISO/IEC TS 4213:2022 (Classification Performance Assessment), ISO/IEC TS 12791:2024 (Treatment of Unwanted Bias in ML Tasks), and ISO/IEC 24688.
- Use Cases, Safety, Sustainability & Conformity: Includes ISO/IEC TR 24030:2024 (185+ AI Use Cases), ISO/IEC TR 24372:2021 (Computational Approaches), ISO/IEC TR 5469:2024 (Functional Safety), ISO/IEC TR 20226:2025 (Environmental Sustainability of AI), ISO/IEC 30134 series (Data Centre Energy Efficiency), ISO/IEC 42006:2025 (AIMS Audit & Certification Bodies Requirements), ISO/IEC 42007:2025 (AI Conformity Assessment Schemes), and ISO/IEC 17021-1.
💡 Why it matters?
As organizations implement AI governance programs and align with emerging regulatory frameworks, navigating the dispersed catalog of international standards is critical. This reference simplifies standard selection by visually and tabularly organizing SC 42 publications by role and discipline, highlighting how foundational management systems like ISO/IEC 42001 interconnect with domain-specific standards for risk, data quality, transparency, impact assessment, and conformity audits.
❓ What's Missing
The document is an index and reference map rather than a full text implementation guide. It explicitly excludes standards currently under development (such as AWI, CD, or DIS stages) and does not provide deep dives, requirement checklists, or clause-by-clause walkthroughs of the individual standards listed.
👥 Best For
AI governance officers, compliance managers, risk professionals, lead auditors, and enterprise architects seeking a structured index of published ISO/IEC standards to benchmark, architect, or certify enterprise AI governance and management systems.
📄 Source Details
Compiled in March 2026 by Synergy Compliance Consulting (SCC) SARL from the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 published catalogue and the ISO policy brief (November 2025).
📝 Thanks to
Synergy Compliance Consulting (SCC) SARL and the members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42.
