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id: "entity-iso-iec-42001"
type: "entity"
entityType: "other"
canonicalName: "ISO/IEC 42001"
aliases: ["ISO 42001", "AI management system standard"]
source_timestamps: ["(enrichment overlay — not in source)"]
tags: ["standards", "ai-governance", "certification"]
related: ["concept-ai-fiduciary-duty", "concept-ai-credit-bureaus", "claim-fiduciary-legal-precedent"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-cl-88-can-ai-agents-be-trusted"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/05/can-ai-agents-be-trusted"
sourceTitle: "Can AI Agents Be Trusted?"
---
# ISO/IEC 42001

ISO/IEC 42001 is the international management-system standard for artificial intelligence (AI management systems). It is **not named in the source article**; it is surfaced by the enrichment overlay as directly relevant to the article's governance argument. The fiduciary-duty literature connects fiduciary obligations (loyalty, care, confidentiality, disclosure) with concrete AI management-system controls and third-party audit/certification schemes.

It is therefore a candidate mechanism for operationalizing [[concept-ai-fiduciary-duty]] and for the independent auditing envisioned by [[concept-ai-credit-bureaus]], and it informs the debate in [[claim-fiduciary-legal-precedent]] about whether new doctrine is even required.