Overview

Practitioners currently face an overwhelming amount of information when it comes to implementing AI best practices. The myriad of existing standards and frameworks place an enormous burden on organizations to decipher this guidance on their own—requiring time, resources, and expertise that many organizations, particularly smaller ones, cannot afford. To address this challenge, researchers at CSET have distilled more than 7,000 recommendations, collected from 52 reports, into a harmonized set of 258 recommended practices. These recommendations illustrate how an organization should govern, manage, and protect its technology—and how to integrate the management of AI systems into its existing practices. This report is intended as a resource for both practitioners, in outlining a comprehensive approach to AI adoption, and policymakers, in providing insight into the range of responsibilities that are being placed—at least voluntarily—on organizations. In the report, the framework is organized into 34 topics areas and grouped into five overarching categories as outlined below: