ISO 42001 and AI Governance

It is for quality and internal-audit staff who already run ISO 9001, IATF 16949 or ISO 27001 and are being asked to add AI. It is also for engineers in plants, GCCs and IT services firms who have shipped a model that a customer's auditor now wants to see governed. IT services firms and global technology centres were among the first organisations to gain ISO 42001 certification. They recruit AI governance analysts and AI auditors out of exactly these roles.

No, and the page will never say otherwise. The IAPP AI Governance Professional credential and the ISO/IEC 42001 lead implementer and lead auditor qualifications are paid and externally examined. This course is neither of them. The lessons come from AIGP masterclass material and AI governance practitioners, so the knowledge overlaps closely. You finish with an EDWartens Certificate of Completion. Employers who ask for a lead auditor qualification will still ask for it. Classroom training for those qualifications is paid and lasts several days.

No coding and no experience of building AI systems. Time inside any management system helps a great deal, because clauses 4 to 10 will already look familiar. If you have never worked in one, the first two modules build that vocabulary before the clause work starts.

Not to complete the course. The modules teach the clause structure and what each clause asks an organisation to produce, using freely available lessons. The standard itself is a copyrighted document sold by ISO and by national standards bodies, and this course does not reproduce its text. Any organisation actually implementing an AIMS should buy a copy.

Each module ends with a task on a system you can see. Tasks include an AI system inventory and six risk statements scored against your own criteria. You write a one-page clause 6.1.4 impact assessment and a document gap list marked exists, uncontrolled or missing. You reconstruct a lifecycle record backwards. You also make an EU AI Act tier and operator-role call for three systems. If your organisation builds nothing, use a bought-in tool your team already uses, such as a chatbot or a coding copilot.

Yes. Every module, practice task and assessment. You create an account so your progress is saved and the assessments can be marked. The certificate is the only paid item, and only if you want it.

An EDWartens Certificate of Completion, issued when you have finished every module and passed the final assessment at 60 per cent, with a verification code anyone can check. It is not a vendor credential, not an accredited certification, and is never described as one.

The creators named in the Credits block at the foot of this page, on their own YouTube channels. EDWartens did not make the videos and the creators are not affiliated with EDWartens. What EDWartens wrote is the study plan, the notes, the practice tasks and the assessments.

No. The lab is optional practice. You can skip it whenever you like, and it never blocks your progress, the final assessment or your certificate.

Yes. Every lab level for this course opens in your browser, free, with nothing to install.

The ISO 42001 and AI Governance course has 13 modules. It opens with "AI governance: principles, trustworthy AI and the NIST AI RMF", goes through "ISO/IEC 42001: the standard and the AI management system", "Clause 6.1.1: planning, risks and opportunities", "Annex A in operation: lifecycle, data, use and interested parties" and "Clauses 8, 9 and 10: operation, audit, management review, improvement and certification" and ends with "Final assessment". The full list with minutes is under "What you learn" on this page.

After the ISO 42001 and AI Governance course: Scope an AIMS and write an AI policy that top management can sign and staff can follow; Build an AI system inventory that turns up the tools nobody registered; Run the clause 6.1.2 risk assessment against criteria set before any scoring, in both directions of risk. These are the practical outcomes the course is written around, and the final assessment of 15 questions checks them.

For the ISO 42001 and AI Governance course, software: None required. A spreadsheet is enough for the AI system inventory, the risk register and the impact assessment. Hardware: none. The course itself is free.

ISO 42001 and AI Governance is rated intermediate. Intermediate. Best if you have worked inside a management system such as ISO 9001, IATF 16949 or ISO 27001, or have shipped an AI system that somebody else now audits. No coding required. It is written for engineers, developers and students applying AI to real work, and takes about 9.2 hours at your own pace.

Skills from the ISO 42001 and AI Governance course (for example: scope an AIMS and write an AI policy that top management can sign and staff can follow) are used in roles such as AI engineer, machine learning engineer, data analyst and automation developer, and in machine learning engineer work. The course gives you practical evidence of the skill; it does not promise a job, and employers decide on experience and interview.