The practitioner standard for accountable enterprise AI
The AI Governance Standards Board develops open, practical standards for how organizations own, measure, secure and evidence their use of artificial intelligence: from AI agents and model usage to token cost and personal data.
AI is being deployed faster than it is being governed
Every enterprise now runs AI it did not fully plan for: assistants, low-code agents, model APIs and tools wired into business data. Boards, auditors, insurers and regulators are asking the same questions, and most organizations cannot yet answer them with evidence.
Who owns it?
AI systems and agents outlive the people who built them. Without a named, accountable owner, nobody answers for what an agent does, what it touches, or what it costs.
What does it cost?
Token and credit consumption grows silently. Spend that cannot be attributed to an owner, a purpose and a budget is spend nobody can defend.
What does it touch?
Personal data, confidential records and production systems are now one prompt or one tool call away. Controls must be designed for AI, and proven to work.
Only 13% of organizations think they have the right AI agent governance in place (Gartner, April 2026).
Six domains. One accountable enterprise.
AIGSB standards are short, testable and technology-neutral. Each one states what must be true, and what evidence proves it.
Accountable Ownership
Every AI system and agent has a named human owner, and ownership survives people changing roles.
Read the draft → AIGS 200Cost and Token Accountability
AI consumption is attributed to an owner, a purpose and a budget, with alerts before overruns.
Read the draft → AIGS 300Usage and Access
The organization knows who uses which AI, how, and whether that use is sanctioned.
Read the draft → AIGS 400Data Protection and Personal Data
Personal and confidential data reaches AI only where classified, permitted and logged.
Read the draft → AIGS 500Agent and Tool Security
Agents act with least privilege, and dangerous combinations of capability are found before they are exploited.
Read the draft → AIGS 600Evidence and Assurance
Every governance claim is backed by evidence, labeled by how strongly it is known to be true.
Read the draft →Open due process, modeled on the bodies finance already trusts
Accounting and audit standards earn their authority through an open, documented process: public agendas, exposure drafts, comment letters, deliberation in the open and post-implementation review. AIGSB applies the same discipline to AI governance.
Anyone can read a draft. Members can submit attributed comment letters. Every final standard records how the comments were considered.
See the due processFounding seats are being offered by invitation
AIGSB is convened by practicing security, risk and technology leaders. Founding Members shape the first standards, are named on the charter, and help seat the first Board.
Membership optionsPractitioners decide. Sponsors do not vote.
AIGSB is founded with sponsorship from AIVONS, Inc., disclosed in full. Sponsors hold no Board seats with voting rights on standards, and no standard may require any vendor's product.
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