{"slug": "google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely", "title": "Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely", "summary": "Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and other tech companies launched the Appia Foundation to create modular specifications that help enterprises demonstrate their AI systems comply with global standards and regulations. Hosted by the Linux Foundation's Joint Development Foundation, the initiative aims to bridge foundational standards with practical assessments across the AI value chain.", "body_md": "Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation.\n\nThe [Appia Foundation](https://appiafoundation.org/) will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.”\n\nThose specifications will help AI users ascertain whether the systems they are using meet all the obligations that apply to them in the form of standards and regulations, it said. It’s a challenging task with so much regional variation in requirements, and where the [EU, for example, is more tightly controlled](https://www.cio.com/article/4032894/analysis-of-the-european-ai-regulation-one-year-after-its-entry-into-force.html) than the US.\n\nThe Foundation has established a set of criteria to demonstrate conformity with what is expected. There are two layers: the Requirements and Guidance layers will help users determine what is actually required, while the Assessment Enablement layer will look at how those requirements are evaluated.\n\nAppia stressed that what it is offering are not standards — which are set by recognized international bodies such as ISO/IEC — but a means of assessing what those standards mean and how they can be used by organizations. However, the Foundation said that some of the criteria that it is introducing may become standards themselves after a period of time.\n\nThe Appia Foundation is hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation, and its other members include Arm, Ericsson, Mastercard, Mitsubishi Electric, Omron, Schneider Electric, and Siemens. It is also looking to bring academics and government into the fold, so that it can establish an advisory board.\n\n*This article first appeared on CIO.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely", "canonical_source": "https://www.infoworld.com/article/4187281/google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely-2.html", "published_at": "2026-06-19 14:54:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 15:10:04.655024+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Google", "Microsoft", "OpenAI", "Appia Foundation", "Linux Foundation", "Arm", "Ericsson", "Mastercard"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/google-microsoft-offer-specs-to-help-you-prove-your-ai-is-behaving-nicely.jsonld"}}