AI Certification Standards — notices and articles The formal record and the editorial stream combined; each entry is categorised notice or article. https://aicertificationstandards.org/feed.xml 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z Tier III opened and the first accredited awarding body listed https://aicertificationstandards.org/notices/2026-004 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z Tier III is open from today; IBAIC Inc. is listed at Tier III after organisation-level review, and is the first entry on the register. AI Competence Framework version 1.29 issued https://aicertificationstandards.org/notices/2026-005 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z Version 1.29 is published and stable: 255 statements across eight domains, three overlays and five extensions, with identifiers fixed for good. Register of conformance claims published with no entries https://aicertificationstandards.org/notices/2026-003 2026-08-29T00:00:00Z The register opens as an empty published service; the first claim may be made from the publication of version 1.29. Telling L2 from L3 https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/telling-l2-from-l3 2026-08-29T00:00:00Z Two tests that settle most level disputes: who chose the approach, and what happens when the situation is not the one the procedure anticipated. A benchmark result is not a fitness claim https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/a-benchmark-result-is-not-a-fitness-claim 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z A benchmark measures performance on the benchmark. Treating that number as evidence of fitness for a particular task is the most common assurance failure in current practice. What “aligned to the framework” is allowed to mean https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/what-aligned-is-allowed-to-mean 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z The four tiers in plain language, and the exact wording each one permits. Tier 0 is a declaration; only Tiers I and II involve us reading anything. Why security is a domain and not a lens https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/why-security-is-a-domain 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z D8 exists as a domain because a lens applied across the other seven domains would have been invisible in every coverage map. The choice has real costs, stated here. What a coverage map claims, and what it does not https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/what-a-coverage-map-claims 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z Taught and assessed are different claims. The gap between them is where a coverage map is most often used to imply something it does not say. Brand and Digital Design Guide AICS‑DS‑001 Rev 1.0 published https://aicertificationstandards.org/notices/2026-001 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z The design guide governing this site, its typography, status tags and record cards takes effect on publication. AI Competence Framework version 0.1 issued for public consultation https://aicertificationstandards.org/notices/2026-002 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z Version 0.1 is published for consultation with statements entered for D6 and D8; every statement is provisional until version 1.29. Why statement identifiers are never reused https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/why-identifiers-are-never-reused 2026-08-23T00:00:00Z An identifier is a contract with every credential that cited it. Renumbering would silently change what those credentials claim, years after they were awarded. Verifying AI output is a competence, and almost nobody teaches it https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/verifying-output-is-a-competence 2026-08-22T00:00:00Z Courses teach people to produce output and stop there. The competence that determines whether the output is usable is left to be picked up on the job, if at all. Why one framework and not one per certification https://aicertificationstandards.org/articles/why-one-framework 2026-08-21T00:00:00Z Every awarding body could publish its own competence framework, and several have. The layer model exists because per-credential frameworks fragment the thing they claim to standardise.