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ISO/IEC 22989

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The ISO/IEC standard (2022) that establishes AI concepts and terminology for use by other standards and by diverse stakeholders 1. Naming registry fields after its vocabulary reduces translation when auditing against the SC 42 family.

Developed in
ch. 22, Foundations and vocabulary
Chapters
ch. 11, AI Defined · ch. 22, Principles & Standards
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

4 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

ISO/IEC 22989: mentions per chapter18 mentions of the term across 4 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter08 Regulatory Map: 2 mentions08 Regulatory Map211 AI Defined: 9 mentions11 AI Defined918 EU AI Act: 3 mentions18 EU AI Act322 Principles & Standards: 4 mentions22 Principles & Standards4No mentions in the other 19 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
ISO/IEC 22989: mentions per chapter18 mentions of the term across 4 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter000102030405060708 Regulatory Map: 2 mentions2081011 AI Defined: 9 mentions91112131415161718 EU AI Act: 3 mentions31819202122 Principles & Standards: 4 mentions42223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of ISO/IEC 22989 per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map2No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined9Yes
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act3No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards4Yes
23 AI Agents0No
  • Machine learning

    The branch of AI in which a system improves at a task by learning patterns from data rather than by following rules people wrote.

  • Autonomy

    In the EU AI Act and OECD texts, some degree of independence of action from human involvement, which almost every AI system has.

Sources

  1. [1] ISO/IEC 22989:2022, Artificial intelligence concepts and terminology (referenced by identifier only; autonomy and heteronomy; clause 5.11 machine learning approaches: supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised, reinforcement). ISO/IEC. 2022-07. https://www.iso.org/standard/74296.html (verified: secondary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). ISO/IEC 22989. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/iso-iec-22989. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026isoiec22989,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{ISO/IEC 22989}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/iso-iec-22989}
}