Standardisation of Artificial Intelligence: Making a “New World” Brave, with Support of Human Requirements in a Machine Intelligence Environment

In line with previous industrial revolutions, standardisation must accompany the deployment of artificial intelligence systems that promise to revolutionise the way we live (home automation, autonomous vehicles, EdTech, etc.) and work (collaborative industrial robots, agricultural robots, inspection and maintenance robots, LegalTech, FinTech, etc.). The standards produced and promoted in Europe will be resolutely geared towards the protection of people and property, thus promoting the acceptability of these intelligent systems and the common interest. They will have to cover the requirements expected of AIs, but also the means and methods for assessing them. The new standards will have to cover not only technical aspects of AI, but also ethical, legal, corporate, national and international requirements to support and protect people in the new AI-driven environment. The paper thus discusses the society-relevant aspects of AI standardisation based on the recently started international and European standardisation processes.