Assess the use case: What should it do before relying on the priorities?
Certification does not replace a use-case assessment of impacts, risks, and residual risks.
The question
An energy company holds an ISO/IEC 42001 certificate for its AI management system. It now uses a maintenance model to prioritize repairs, but has no assessment of worker safety, contractor effects, or residual risks. What should it do before relying on the priorities?
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- Validate the model against historical repair outcomesHistorical performance may inform measurement, but it does not assess safety impacts or document responses to residual risks.
- Accept the deployment because the management system is certifiedA scoped ISO/IEC 42001 certificate does not establish that this particular use is safe, suitable, or legally compliant.
- Expand certification to include the maintenance modelCertification scope may concern organizational processes, but expanding it does not itself produce evidence about worker, contractor, or residual risks.
- Assess the use case ✓The company needs a context-specific impact and risk assessment covering affected workers, contractors, mitigations, and residual risks.
The trap
When deployment evidence is missing, examine affected people, impacts, mitigations, and residual risks. How to remember it
Certification does not replace a use-case assessment of impacts, risks, and residual risks.
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