AI Management Systems
ISO/IEC 42001 AI governance — system registers, impact assessments and controls, run alongside the privacy and security frameworks the same AI systems already touch.
- StandardISO/IEC 42001:2023 (AIMS)
- CompanionsPDPL · GDPR · ISO/IEC 27001 · SDAIA guidance
- RegisterEvery AI system, its purpose, data and owner
- AssessmentAI impact assessment per system
AI Management Systems
ISO/IEC 42001 is the first certifiable management system standard for artificial intelligence. It asks an organisation to know which AI systems it runs, what each is for, what data feeds it, who is accountable, and what harm it could do — then to assess that impact and control it with the same discipline ISO/IEC 27001 brought to information security.
Almost every AI system already sits inside another framework's scope: it processes personal data under PDPL or GDPR, it runs on infrastructure under ISO/IEC 27001, and in the Gulf it is increasingly subject to SDAIA's AI ethics principles and sector guidance. An AI management system that is built apart from those frameworks duplicates their controls and misses their evidence.
GRCLens carries ISO/IEC 42001 as a catalogue framework on the same control model as the rest of the library, so an AI system register entry, its impact assessment and its controls are linked to the privacy and security obligations already being evidenced for the same system.
What the platform does for AI governance
AI Systems Inventory
Each system with its type, lifecycle stage, purpose, owner and impact-assessment status — Annex A A.4.2 kept as a register in the tenant, not a spreadsheet.
Impact assessment, tracked
Impact-assessment status per system, from not started through approved to requires-remediation, beside the PDPL and GDPR registers for the same tenant.
Annex A, assessed
The 42001 catalogue is assessed with the same evidence workflow as ISO/IEC 27001, and its Statement of Applicability is a register of its own with Annex B guidance beside each control.
Automated decision-making register
Where an AI system makes or shapes decisions about people, the ADM register records it — the decision, the affected parties and the human review step.
Legal requirements register
PDPL, GDPR, EU AI Act database status and sector guidance tracked per system, in a register beside the privacy frameworks already enabled.
AI risk and non-conformities
An AI Risk Register and a Non-Conformity & Corrective Action Register, so clauses 6 and 10 have somewhere to live — bilingual, like the rest of the catalogue.
How it shows up in a tenant
ISO/IEC 42001 is enabled per tenant like any framework; these are the screens it adds.
42001 dashboard
Clause and Annex A posture, with the systems register beside it.
Registers
Seven for the framework: SoA, AI systems inventory, legal requirements, infrastructure assets, automated decision-making, AI risk, non-conformities.
Evidence
Model cards, test results, approvals and monitoring reports attached to controls and reused for every framework that asks.
SoA and reports
Applicability decisions and a certification-ready statement, exported bilingually.
Frameworks in this discipline
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management System
Govern AI responsibly: assess and evidence your AI management system against ISO/IEC 42001, including Annex A controls and an AI system register.
Open the framework page →Personal Data Protection Law
Operationalise the Kingdom's Personal Data Protection Law: processing records, data subject rights, transfer controls and breach readiness.
Open the framework page →General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679)
Demonstrate accountability under the GDPR — lawful basis, data subject rights, records of processing and breach readiness, evidenced in one place.
Open the framework page →ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information Security Management
Annex A controls, Statement of Applicability, risk treatment and evidence — managed in one place, ready for your certification body.
Open the framework page →AI Management Systems
Does GRCLens certify us against ISO/IEC 42001?
No. GRCLens supports assessment, evidence and the Statement of Applicability; certification is issued by an accredited certification body after its own audit.
How does the AI inventory relate to our PDPL registers?
They sit side by side in the same tenant. The AI Systems Inventory records what each system does and its impact-assessment status; the PDPL registers hold the processing activities. Both are filterable by framework, so the privacy officer and the AI owner look at the same records.
Does GRCLens use AI itself?
Yes. Baseerah, the analysis feature, drafts summaries and prioritised actions from assessment, evidence and indicator data. It is an assistant: what it writes is read and acted on by the assessor, and it does not change an answer or a score.
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Bring your AI systems under management
A walkthrough of the ISO/IEC 42001 catalogue, the system register and an impact assessment, with one of your own systems as the example.