The whole syllabus, in notes

I.A Understand what AI is and why it needs governance

Generally accepted definitions and types of AI, the risks and harms it can cause, the characteristics that make it hard to govern, and the common principles of responsible AI.

12 key terms · 4–6 exam questions

I.B Establish and communicate organizational expectations for AI governance

How an organization sets up the people side of AI governance — roles and responsibilities, cross-functional collaboration, training and awareness, right-sizing the program, and the developer/provider/deployer/user distinction.

12 key terms · 5–7 exam questions

I.C Establish policies and procedures to apply throughout the AI life cycle

Building the policy layer of an AI governance program — lifecycle policies for oversight and accountability, updating existing policies (privacy, security, data governance, intellectual property (IP)) for AI, and managing third-party and procurement risk with assessments, contracts and acceptable-use rules.

11 key terms · 6–8 exam questions

II.A Understand how existing data privacy laws apply to AI

How established data-protection law — anchored in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — already governs AI: transparency, choice, lawful basis and purpose limitation; data minimization and privacy by design; controller obligations (data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), processors, transfers, data subject requests (DSRs), Art. 22 automated decision-making (ADM), breach notification, records); and special-category data including biometrics.

12 key terms · 4–6 exam questions

II.B Understand how other existing laws apply to AI

Beyond privacy: how intellectual-property, nondiscrimination, consumer-protection and product-liability law already reach AI — from training-data copyright and the human-authorship rule, through Title VII / Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) / Fair Housing Act (FHA) disparate-impact liability, to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act §5 unfair or deceptive acts or practices (UDAP) and design/manufacturing/warning defects under product-liability regimes.

11 key terms · 4–6 exam questions

II.C Understand the main elements of AI-specific laws

The architecture of purpose-built AI law, anchored in the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689): the four risk tiers and what falls in each; core requirements (risk management, data governance, technical documentation, conformity/impact assessment, record keeping); human oversight, transparency and quality management; general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) model obligations and the systemic-risk threshold; enforcement and penalties; and role-based duties for providers, deployers, importers and distributors — contrasted with the South Korean AI Basic Act and the Colorado AI Act.

12 key terms · 6–8 exam questions

II.D Understand the main industry standards and tools that apply to AI

The voluntary, non-binding scaffolding that complements AI law: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) AI Principles and AI-system definition; the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage), its Playbook and trustworthiness characteristics; and the core International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) AI standards — 22989 (terminology), 42001 (AI management system) and 42005 (AI impact assessment).

12 key terms · 3–5 exam questions

III.A Govern the designing and building of the AI system

Define the business context and use case, run or review an impact assessment, apply policies/ethics to design and build, identify and manage internal/external risks, and document the whole process.

13 key terms · 6–8 exam questions

III.B Govern the collection and use of data in training and testing

Establish data governance (lawful rights, quality, integrity, fit-for-purpose), capture data lineage and provenance, plan and perform training and testing, manage issues and risks that arise, and document the process.

12 key terms · 6–8 exam questions

III.C Govern the release, monitoring and maintenance of the AI system

Assess release readiness (model card, conformity), monitor continuously and schedule maintenance/retraining, run periodic assessments (audits, red teaming, threat modeling, security testing), manage and document incidents, root-cause them cross-functionally, and make required public disclosures.

13 key terms · 8–10 exam questions

IV.A Evaluate key factors and risks for the decision to deploy

How a deployer weighs the use-case context, chooses among AI model types (classic vs. generative, proprietary vs. open, small vs. large, language vs. multimodal), and picks a deployment option (cloud vs. on-premise vs. edge; as-is vs. fine-tuning vs. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) vs. agentic) before committing to deploy.

13 key terms · 6–8 exam questions

IV.B Perform key activities to assess the AI system

The assessment work a deployer does before and during deployment: performing or reviewing an impact assessment on the selected system, identifying and evaluating the key terms and risks in the vendor/licensing agreement, and recognizing the heightened obligations and liability of deploying your own proprietary model.

12 key terms · 5–7 exam questions

IV.C Govern the deployment and use of the AI system

The ongoing, operational governance of a deployed system: applying policies and ethics at deployment, continuous monitoring and a maintenance/retraining schedule, periodic assessment (audits, red teaming, threat modeling, security testing), documenting incidents and post-market monitoring, forecasting and reducing secondary/downstream harms, external communication plans, and controls to deactivate or localize the system.

13 key terms · 9–11 exam questions