TIC Council is proud to announce that, one year after its establishment, the AIQI Consortium has been recognised as a trusted partner by the United Kingdom’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in the recently released Trusted Third-Party AI Assurance Roadmap.
Co-founded by TIC Council and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) and launched at the TIC Summit 2024 by the Lord Mayor of London Dr Michael Mainelli, the Consortium is a cross-border brings together international stakeholders from the QI eco-system to develop a framework for a safe, secure, and transparent implementation of AI technologies.
The DSIT roadmap sets out clear actions to build the skills, infrastructure, and ecosystem required to support safe and reliable AI development and deployment, acknowledging the importance of a robust AI assurance market. The roadmap refers to the AIQI Consortium as a key international body with which the UK Government intends to engage as it works towards developing a future AI assurance profession.
To ensure the UK is ready to respond to rapid developments in AI capabilities, DSIT is also establishing the AI Assurance Innovation Fund. This initiative will issue £11 million funding to support the development of innovative and novel AI assurance mechanisms to help actors across the AI value chain to identify and address the risks posed by high-capability AI systems. The fund will capitalise on the UK’s world-leading expertise in AI security and assurance to create a flourishing AI assurance market in the UK that is equipped to deal with the risks posed by advancing AI capabilities. The first round of the AI Assurance Innovation Fund will open for applications in Spring 2026.
We are grateful to the members of the Digitalisation Committee for the efforts they put to address the AI Assurance topic through this platform and thus make the voice of Conformity Assessment heard and trusted.