When will ISO/IEC 42105 be published?

ISO has announced no date. The record shows stage 50.20, with the FDIS ballot opening on 26 August 2026 for eight weeks, so it closes on 21 October 2026 by our arithmetic. This site uses 16 February 2027 as a planning date, 120 days from 19 October 2026, and labels it as our estimate. Check the official record before you rely on it.

Is ISO/IEC 42105 certifiable?

No. It is guidance, and the ISO record describes it as guidance. No certificate is issued against it. An organization can be certified to ISO/IEC 42001:2023, and 42105 can inform the oversight controls inside that management system, but it does not create a certification of its own.

How does ISO/IEC 42105 relate to ISO/IEC 42001?

The public abstract says 42105 extends ISO/IEC TS 8200 and applies across the AI system life cycle. ISO/IEC 42001 is the management-system standard that requires an AI policy, roles, risk and impact assessment, life-cycle controls, monitoring and improvement. The oversight controls in 42001 are the place a 42105 register is used. The FDIS does not replace 42001.

What does the free check decide?

It places your organization against the public scope: whether you develop, provide, deploy or use AI systems, whether the system is high-impact, whether you claim ISO/IEC 42001, and whether oversight is documented and exercisable. It returns a verdict, the rule it used, the days to the planning date and three actions. It does not score compliance and does not give legal advice.

What is in the paid kit?

The 47-unit human oversight register with the held citation, the requirement in our words, the evidence an auditor asks for and the common gaps; a dated 120-day plan to the planning date and a post-publication re-baseline; an evidence index; and a gap-question set. The files are PDF, CSV and XLSX, USD 799 one off.

What does the change watch send?

An email when the ISO stage, the stage date, the title, the committee, the ICS, the page count or the record hash changes, with the diff that changed it. It does not watch your own systems, your evidence or your review dates. USD 49 a month, cancel any time.

Two colleagues reviewing documents together at a desk — **The policy can be approved in a morning.**The operator still has to be able to stop the system in the afternoon. That gap is what this record is for.

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Human oversight of AI systems, before the standard lands.

Q: What is ISO/IEC 42105?

It is a draft International Standard from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 on guidance for human oversight of AI systems. The public abstract says it gives guidance on human control and monitoring of AI systems, extends ISO/IEC TS 8200, and applies to all types of organizations throughout the AI system life cycle. It is at stage 50.20, the FDIS ballot, and is not published.

ISO/IEC FDIS 42105 is a draft International Standard on guidance for human oversight of AI systems. ISO records it at stage 50.20, the FDIS ballot, with 29 pages and no publication date. This site records the public facts, states the oversight controls from the held standards in our words, and gives you a free scope and date check.

Read from the real rules, not invented. Every answer ISO 42105 Revision Checker gives points to the official rule behind it, so you can check any line yourself.

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47 oversight units
142 evidence items
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Stage50.20 FDIS ballot

Planning date16 Feb 2027, our estimate

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The record at a glance

Designation: ISO/IEC FDIS 42105, Edition 1
Subject: Guidance for human oversight of AI systems
Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42, Artificial intelligence
Status: Stage 50.20, Proof sent to secretariat or FDIS ballot initiated: 8 weeks, dated 26 August 2026
Length: 29 pages, ICS 35.240.01
Extends: ISO/IEC TS 8200, which this site names but does not hold
Certifiable: No, it is draft guidance
Register: 47 oversight units from four held standards
Planning date: 16 February 2027, our estimate

120days from the record date to the planning date, if the estimate holds

The planning date is our arithmetic from the stage record, not an ISO announcement. Read the record.

01The free check

Does the guidance reach you, and what must be ready by the planning date?

Eight answers place your organization against the public scope of the FDIS and the held oversight controls. The check returns a verdict, the rule it used, the days to the planning date, three actions and three units to read. It does not score compliance, it does not call you certified, and it does not ask for a file.

Scope first. Whether you develop, provide, deploy or use AI systems, and whether the public scope reaches you.
The duty next. Whether the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 or both are the binding benchmark, and whether oversight is exercisable today.
Three actions. Chosen from the record by your answers, each with the unit that supports it.

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02The record

What the public record proves, and what it does not

The ISO page gives the title, the abstract, the committee, the ICS, the page count, the edition and the full life-cycle table. It records stage 50.20, the FDIS ballot, dated 26 August 2026, and an eight-week ballot that closes on 21 October 2026 by our arithmetic. It says the document gives guidance on human control and monitoring of AI systems, extends ISO/IEC TS 8200, applies to all types of organizations and applies across the AI system life cycle.

It does not publish the body. There is no clause list, no clause heading and no text to quote. This site says that on every unit page rather than inventing one. What it can do is state the held oversight controls that the guidance will operate on, cite each one, and give the evidence an auditor asks for. That is the register.

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03What it is

Guidance, not a certificate

ISO/IEC 42105 is not a certifiable requirements standard. The ISO record describes it as guidance, and no certificate is issued against it. It does not replace ISO/IEC 42001:2023, which is the certifiable AI management system, and it does not replace the EU AI Act Article 14 duty for high-risk systems. It sits beside both.

The buyer's practical question is narrower: which oversight controls do we need, what evidence will be asked for, who can stop the system, and when. The register answers that question in 47 units, each with a held citation, the requirement in our words, the evidence and the common gap.

What it is

Draft guidance from ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42
A life-cycle view of human control and monitoring
A bridge from ISO/IEC TS 8200 controllability to an operating control
Applicable to all types of organizations

What it is not

Not certifiable
Not a replacement for ISO/IEC 42001
Not a substitute for EU AI Act Article 14
Not public in draft, so no FDIS clause is quoted here

04The register

Six themes, 47 units, one evidence index

Every unit is a testable control. It names the theme, the held clause, the requirement in our words, what it means for the person overseeing the system, the evidence an auditor asks for, the gaps seen most often and the questions to ask before you sign the row.

T1 · 14 unitsAccountability

Who oversees, who decides, who answers. Can you name the person who can stop the system, and the person who answers for it?

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T2 · 8 unitsImpact

What the system can do to people. Does the file name the people the system can harm, and the harm the overseer is watching for?

Read the theme

T3 · 8 unitsLife cycle

Design, validate, deploy, operate, stop. Is oversight designed in, tested before release, and still exercisable at production volume?

Read the theme

T4 · 6 unitsInformation

What the overseer and the affected person are told. Does the person at the screen know what the system cannot do, and what to do when it fails?

Read the theme

T5 · 6 unitsUse

Responsible use, intended use and the decision. Is the system used as intended, by competent people, with a real ability to refuse its output?

Read the theme

T6 · 5 unitsAssurance

Measure, audit, correct, improve. Could you prove to an auditor that oversight operated last quarter, with dates and names?

Read the theme

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05The kit

What the USD 799 kit contains

The kit is a document set, not a subscription. It holds the 47-unit register, the 142-item evidence index, the dated 120-day plan to the planning date and the first 90 days after publication, the gap questions, and a one-page board brief. The files are PDF, CSV and XLSX so the register can be worked in a spreadsheet and the PDF can go to an audit file.

Five labelled rows are free and downloadable without an account. The kit arrives by one click to checkout, with no sign-in form before the payment page. Buyers get the register reissued against the published text at no extra charge.

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06The watch

What the change watch does

USD 49 a month. An email when the ISO stage, the stage date, the title, the committee, the ICS, the page count or the record hash changes, with the diff that changed it. The watch is for the months around the FDIS close and publication, when a register built on a draft needs to know that the text moved.

It does not watch your own systems, your evidence or your review dates. It watches the record this site is built from. What the watch covers.

07Four markets

What binds you depends on where the system reaches people

The FDIS is guidance. The binding duties come from law and from the management system you claim. The rules page names what is held for the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Australia, in that order, and says plainly where a regime is not held.

USUnited States

No federal AI statute is held. NIST AI RMF 1.0 is the held voluntary framework, with explicit oversight controls in GOVERN, MAP and MANAGE. Colorado's AI Act is held but proposed, so it is named and not relied on.

EUEuropean Union

The EU AI Act is held and binding. Article 14 is the human oversight duty for high-risk systems, Article 26 is the deployer duty, and Articles 12, 13 and 72 supply logs, transparency and post-market monitoring.

UKUnited Kingdom

No AI-specific Act is held. UK GDPR is held and applies where the system processes personal data. The UK's pro-innovation AI regulation framework is named, not held, so its expectations are not stated as requirements here.

AUAustralia

The Australia Guidance for AI Adoption (2025) is held, and the Australia AI Ethics Framework is held. Neither is a statute. The Privacy Act applies where personal information is handled and is named, not stated here.

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08Questions

Questions buyers ask

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09The rules this is built from

The rules this is built from

Nothing here is invented. The register is read from the standards below, clause by clause, and every line points to the one it came from.

ISO/IEC 42001:2023
the AI management system: policy, roles, risk and impact assessment, life-cycle controls, information, use, monitoring and improvement, in 74 held controls
ISO/IEC 42005:2025
the impact assessment guidance: responsibilities, thresholds, the assessment, approval, review and explainability, in 39 held controls
EU AI Act
Article 14 human oversight, Article 26 deployer duties, and the transparency, logging and post-market controls, in 43 held controls
NIST AI RMF 1.0
the US voluntary framework, including the four oversight controls used here, in 72 held controls
ISO/IEC FDIS 42105
Edition 1, 29 pages, stage 50.20 dated 26 August 2026; the public record this site is named for

The FDIS body is not public. This site states the public record and the held controls, and does not present a requirement from the draft as if it were the published text.

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