Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely

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by Maxwell Cooter

Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely

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Jun 19, 20262 mins

The Appia Foundation won’t set standards or regulations, but aims to help enterprises evaluate their compliance with them.

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Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation.

The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.”

Those specifications will help AI users ascertain whether the systems they are using meet all the obligations that apply to them in the form of standards and regulations, it said. It’s a challenging task with so much regional variation in requirements, and where the EU, for example, is more tightly controlled than the US.

The Foundation has established a set of criteria to demonstrate conformity with what is expected. There are two layers: the Requirements and Guidance layers will help users determine what is actually required, while the Assessment Enablement layer will look at how those requirements are evaluated.

Appia stressed that what it is offering are not standards — which are set by recognized international bodies such as ISO/IEC — but a means of assessing what those standards mean and how they can be used by organizations. However, the Foundation said that some of the criteria that it is introducing may become standards themselves after a period of time.

The Appia Foundation is hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation, and its other members include Arm, Ericsson, Mastercard, Mitsubishi Electric, Omron, Schneider Electric, and Siemens. It is also looking to bring academics and government into the fold, so that it can establish an advisory board.

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Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely

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