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AIMS

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An AI management system: the governance structure, roles, controls and continual-improvement loop that ISO/IEC 42001 certifies. An AIMS is not the AI Act's Article 17 quality management system.

Developed in
ch. 22, The management-system trio
Chapters
ch. 07, Maturity Model · ch. 08, Regulatory Map · ch. 22, Principles & Standards
Contrast with
QMS (Art. 17)
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

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

  • ISO/IEC 42001

    The ISO/IEC standard (2023) that specifies requirements for an AI management system, certifiable by accredited bodies.

  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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

Cite this term

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

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026aims,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{AIMS}},
  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/aims}
}