Kenya: Artificial intelligence standard

 

Kenya has published a new national standards dealing with Artificial Intelligence: DKS 3007:2024 Information technology — Artificial Intelligence — Code of Practice for AI Applications.

This document provides a set of recommendations intended to help the organization develop, provide, or use AI systems responsibly in pursuing its objectives and meet applicable requirements, obligations related to interested parties and expectations from them. It includes the following:

— approaches to establish trust in AI systems through transparency, explainability, controllability, etc.

— engineering pitfalls and typical associated threats and risks to AI systems, along with possible mitigation techniques and methods; and

— approaches to assess and achieve availability, resiliency, reliability, accuracy, safety, security and privacy of AI systems

This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of size, type and nature, that provides or uses products or services that utilize AI systems.

The standard is based on several international standards, such as:

• KS ISO/IEC 5339, Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Guidance for AI applications
• KS ISO/IEC 42001:2023, Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Management system
• KS ISO/IEC 5338:2023, Information technology — Artificial intelligence — AI system life cycle processes
• NIST AI 100-1, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
• EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, March 2024
• KS ISO/IEC 22989:2022, Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Artificial intelligence concepts and terminology
• KS ISO/IEC 25059, Software engineering — Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) Quality model for AI systems
• KS ISO/IEC TR 24368, Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Overview of ethical and societal concerns
• KS ISO/IEC 23894, Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Guidance on risk management

The proposed date of adoption is 30 September 2024.