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Trusted third-party AI assurance roadmap

3 Sep 2025

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Outline · 158 paragraphs

  1. Trusted third-party AI assurance roadmap¶1
  2. Ministerial foreword¶3
  3. Introduction¶12
  4. Government actions¶26
  5. Professionalisation¶29
  6. Convening a UK consortium to work towards a future AI assurance profession¶30
  7. Skills¶36
  8. Developing our understanding of AI assurance skills and competencies¶37
  9. Information access¶41
  10. Mapping information requirements to inform best practice guidelines¶42
  11. Innovation¶44
  12. Establishing a new forum for multi-stakeholder collaboration¶45
  13. Challenges for a trusted third-party assurance market¶47
  14. Quality¶49
  15. Skills¶53
  16. Information access¶57
  17. Innovation¶60
  18. Exploring interventions to support a high-quality third-party AI assurance market¶64
  19. Pathways to quality assurance¶65
  20. Government action¶66
  21. Professionalisation¶74
  22. What is professionalisation?¶76
  23. The UK Cyber Security Council¶80
  24. Market readiness¶83
  25. Potential benefits and limitations¶85
  26. Other pathways to quality assurance¶91
  27. Process certification¶94
  28. What is process certification?¶95
  29. British Standards Institution’s (BSI) AI Algorithm Auditing and Dataset Testing service¶97
  30. Market readiness¶101
  31. Potential benefits and limitations¶103
  32. Accreditation¶108
  33. What is accreditation?¶109
  34. Market readiness¶111
  35. Potential benefits and limitations¶114
  36. Skills¶117
  37. Government action¶118
  38. Information access¶130
  39. Government action¶131
  40. Innovation¶145
  41. Government action¶146
  42. Next steps¶155