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The requirement in our words, the evidence an assessor asks for, the common gaps and what to do before publication.
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Each answer is written first for the reader who has one question and ninety seconds. The clause pages carry the detail. Every answer is in the page HTML, not behind a script or a form.
| Question | The answer in one paragraph |
|---|---|
| Does ISO 42703 apply to your AI system? | It applies to any algorithmic system used in selection, allocation, ranking or decision-making where different parties can receive different outcomes, whatever the technology. It also applies when a system is designed, used with new data, moved to a new context, updated or decommissioned. A system that cannot produce different outcomes is outside it. |
| What is ISO/IEC/IEEE DIS 42703? | It is the first ISO edition of the standard for algorithmic bias considerations, developed by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42. It is a Draft International Standard at stage 40.99, approved for registration as an FDIS. It is the joint ISO, IEC and IEEE project whose published IEEE edition is IEEE Std 7003-2024. It is not published and cannot be certified against. |
| When will ISO 42703 be published? | No publication date is recorded. ISO records stage 40.99 on 16 September 2026: the DIS is approved for registration as an FDIS. The approval and publication stages follow, but their dates are not on the public page. The 13 September 2027 date used here is a planning estimate, not an ISO commitment. |
| Is ISO 42703 the same as IEEE 7003-2024? | In substance, yes. The DIS is the joint ISO, IEC and IEEE project; IEEE Std 7003-2024 is its published IEEE edition, approved on 11 December 2024 and published on 24 January 2025. The ISO edition adds the ISO foreword and editorial conventions and may adjust terminology. No public clause change is recorded, and none is claimed here. |
| What is a bias profile under ISO 42703? | It is the through-life record of the bias work for a system. For every task it keeps the initial, the intermediate and the most recent version of the documents, and each clause reads it and writes back to it. It is not a one-off report and it is not replaced by the latest version. |
| What evidence does an ISO 42703 assessor ask for? | The bias profile with its version history, the stakeholder reference set with types and attributes, the data map with provenance and imbalances, the signed risk and impact assessment with the owner's acceptance, and the evaluation document with the monitoring plan. Each clause page on this site lists the specific artefacts. |
| How does ISO 42703 relate to ISO/IEC 42001? | ISO/IEC 42001 is an organization-level AI management system standard. ISO 42703 is a system-level process for bias considerations. They overlap at the impact assessment, the data controls and the evidence, but neither replaces the other. A 42001 programme can hold the 42703 record for each system it governs. |
| What changed from IEEE 7003 to ISO 42703? | No public clause change is recorded. The joint project's published IEEE edition is IEEE Std 7003-2024 and adds the ISO foreword and editorial conventions. The DIS text is not public, so this site does not claim an unseen change. When the FDIS or the published standard is available, the record is refreshed and the diff is sent. |
THE RULES THIS IS BUILT FROM
The rules this is built from
Read from the real rules, not invented. Every clause answer on this site points to the official rule behind it, so you can check any line yourself. The register holds 67 records, 269 evidence lines and 201 common failure lines. The dates come from the ISO record. The substance comes from the published IEEE edition behind the joint project.
61 CLAUSES
6 ANNEXES
Guidance, clearly labelled
Annexes A to F are informative. Each page says so, because a finding cannot rest on guidance alone.
Open the annexesONE STAGE RECORD
No invented date
Stage 40.99 is recorded on 16 September 2026. The planning date is an estimate and is labelled wherever it appears.
Read the recordThe ISO draft text is not public and is not reproduced. Each record cites the published clause it comes from. Where the public record is silent, the page says so.