The AIQI Consortium is a global initiative launched to address digital trust and ethical challenges posed by the rapid development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Originally spearheaded by the Lord Mayor of the City of London at the TIC Council AI Summit in May 2024 as the Walbrook Accord, where summit participants acknowledged the critical role quality infrastructure has in ensuring AI is safe, compliant, and aligned with societal values.

Working in partnership, TIC Council and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) have operationalised the initiative a proposal to implement the Walbrook Accord by establishing a consortium of quality infrastructure partners. The consortium brings together organisations and other stakeholders from over 25 countries.

The initiative is built on a collaborative and voluntary basis, encouraging international cooperation to create a unified approach to AI governance, thereby ensuring AI's positive impact on society while mitigating its potential risks.  It acts in an independent, open and non-commercial manner for the benefit of specifiers and users of accredited conformity assessment including wider society and regulators referring to conformity assessment.

Our Vision

The majority of AI systems used in society are assured through use of the quality infrastructure, utilising accredited conformity assessment based on consensus standards, to support trust, safety, reliability and responsible use.

Quality infrastructure encompasses the collective system of standards, accreditation, conformity assessment, metrology, research and related institutions. Accredited conformity assessment is one of the key routes through which assurance can be delivered, while consensus standards provide a common technical foundation that can support different regulatory and policy approaches across jurisdictions.

Our Mission

To advance the global understanding and use of the quality infrastructure for AI assurance by convening stakeholders, advocating for standards-based approaches, and supporting practical capability building.

AIQI acts as a convenor and catalyst rather than an operator of assurance services. The consortium engages with quality infrastructure bodies, the wider AI ecosystem, public-interest organisations and policy communities to help ensure that standards-based assurance is understood, practical and aligned with market and societal needs.

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