ISO/IEC FDIS 42105 · stage 50.20 FDIS ballot closes 21 October 2026 Planning date 16 Feb 2027, our estimate Official record
OHISO 42105 Revision CheckerHuman oversight of AI systems, before publication

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Life cycle: Design, validate, deploy, operate, stop

The oversight controls that run through the system's life. This theme covers risk assessment, operational control, verification and validation, live monitoring, logging and disengagement.

01The question

Is oversight designed in, tested before release, and still exercisable at production volume?

The oversight controls that run through the system's life. This theme covers risk assessment, operational control, verification and validation, live monitoring, logging and disengagement.

What good looks like

A V&V plan, operating procedures, drift monitoring, logs and a tested disengagement mechanism.

What goes wrong

Oversight designed for a pilot, drift not monitored, and a kill switch that has never been pulled.

02The units

The 8 units in this theme

Life cycle oversight units
RefOversight unitThemeHeld citationEvidence
OH-05AI risk assessmentLife cycleISO/IEC 42001:2023, 6.1.23
OH-11Operational planning and controlLife cycleISO/IEC 42001:2023, 8.13
OH-24Verification and validationLife cycleISO/IEC 42001:2023, A.6.2.43
OH-25Operation and monitoringLife cycleISO/IEC 42001:2023, A.6.2.63
OH-26Event logsLife cycleISO/IEC 42001:2023, A.6.2.83
OH-36Approval of the assessmentLife cycleISO/IEC 42005:2025, 5.113
OH-46Oversight processes defined and assessedLife cycleNIST AI RMF 1.0, MP-3.53
OH-47Disengage or deactivate the systemLife cycleNIST AI RMF 1.0, MN-2.43
03How to work it

Work the theme, not the document

Open one unit, answer its three questions, and attach the evidence it names. Then move to the next. The theme is complete when every row has a named owner, a dated artefact and a recorded answer to the questions. That is a higher bar than a policy, and a lower bar than a certification.

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