Registry open Standard v1.0 in force · next review July 2027
The Body of Knowledge

One standard for working with AI — kept current.

The AI Passport is not a course you finish. It is a live competency standard you stay registered against, so the credential always reflects the state of the art. The Body of Knowledge sits centrally with the Foundation and never fragments across operators.

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Version in force v1.0 · JULY 2026
Body of Knowledge Six domains · versioned in public
Review cycle Three-year, on a fixed schedule
Validity 24 months, by design
What the AI Passport is Three things, held together
01

A standard

One Body of Knowledge, owned centrally and versioned in public — authored and reviewed by an independent Consortium of academics and practitioners, never by a licensee.

Held by the Foundation
02

A credential

Earned by persona and tier against a published exam — and valid for a fixed term, because a claim about AI ability decays if it is never re-tested.

Earned by the holder
03

A registry

Every Passport is publicly checkable by code. Status is published as it stands — active or expired — with no login and no fee to the person checking.

Open to anyone
The Body of Knowledge

Six domains, one framework

A versioned framework spanning the practical, ethical and organisational competencies of working with AI. The v1 structure below covers the Individual and Company personas.

01

Foundations of AI

How modern AI systems work at a working level — models, capabilities and limits — without requiring a technical background.

02

Working with AI tools

Prompting, evaluation of outputs, tool selection and integrating AI into everyday professional tasks.

03

Verification & judgement

Detecting error and hallucination, checking sources, and knowing when not to rely on a model.

04

Ethics, safety & bias

Responsible use, fairness, harm avoidance, and the human accountability that stays with the operator.

05

Data, privacy & security

Handling sensitive data with AI, confidentiality, and the security posture organisations must hold.

06

Governance & the workplace

Policy, disclosure, and the organisational competencies assessed for the Company persona.

Standard v1.0 is in force. The six domains shown here are the current published structure; the full versioned syllabus, learning outcomes and assessment criteria are being finalised for public release. External accreditation is pursued separately as a formal milestone — until it is recorded in the registry, nothing on this page constitutes an externally accredited qualification.

Publication & review cycle
Why it stays valid Validity note · v1.0

A register, not a certificate drawer

A credential you never re-earn is a souvenir.

Doctors do not stay qualified by keeping a diploma; they stay registered. AI moves faster than medicine, so a Passport carries a 24-month validity satisfied by continuing registration. An out-of-date AI credential is worthless — publishing expiry is honesty, not a paywall.

Month 0 · conferred Month 24 · re-assessment due
MONTH 0
Earn

Pass the exam for your persona and tier at a licensed centre or in the app.

SAME DAY
Register

Your record enters the public registry with an issue date and a validity date.

MONTHS 1–24
Stay current

Continuing registration keeps you on the register and delivers each cycle's update.

MONTH 24
Renew — or lapse

Re-assess against the current Standard. Miss it and the registry says expired, publicly.

What renewal delivers

The updated Body of Knowledge, any tier-specific reassessment, and a refreshed validity window recorded against the holder's code. Holders are always registered against a named version.

On expiry

A lapsed Passport reads as expired in the public lookup — never as a live credential. It can be reinstated by re-registering against the current standard.

A credential is only worth the register behind it.

Anyone can print a certificate. What cannot be printed is a public record that says, today, whether a person is still certified — and what they were certified against.

That record is the product. The exam is how you enter it; continuing registration is how you stay in it; the Standard is what it means.

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