Podcast Episode 6: Making AI Standards Work For Busy Professionals

Guest: Michael Thieme (Managing Director and Cloud Advisory Lead at Accenture)

Description: Michael Thieme (Managing Director and Cloud Advisory Lead at Accenture, AI standards contributor, and specialist in trustworthy AI delivery for public and private sector organisations) joins Adam Leon Smith DEng FBCS (AIQI Consortium)   Professor Michael Mainelli (Z/Yen Group) and for a practical discussion on making AI standards usable in the real world.

Mike reflects on his early work in biometric standards and explains how the rapid shift to generative AI has increased the need for “consumable” standards that professionals can realistically apply. He shares insights from leading ISO/IEC projects on AI verification, validation, and performance measurement across classification, regression, clustering, and recommendation systems. The conversation explores government AI adoption, the challenges of metrics and reproducibility, reframing oversight as “human in the lead,” and why clear terminology is becoming essential as agentic AI systems evolve.