1、Issue BriefSeptember 2025Harmonizing AI GuidanceDistilling Voluntary Standards and Best Practices into a Unified FrameworkAuthorsKyle CrichtonAbhiram Reddy Jessica JiAli CrawfordMia HoffmannColin Shea-Blymyer John BansemerHarmonizing AI GuidanceDistilling Voluntary Standards and Best Practices into
2、a Unified FrameworkAuthorsKyle CrichtonAbhiram Reddy Jessica JiAli CrawfordMia HoffmannColin Shea-Blymyer John Bansemer Center for Security and Emerging Technology|1 Executive Summary Organizations looking to develop or deploy artificial intelligence(AI)systems face many barriers in trying to operat
3、ionalize AI-related best practices.In addition to the many practical hurdles to implementation,such as a lack of resources or in-house expertise,the complex landscape of existing AI guidance itself presents a substantial challenge.Organizations face an overload of information,coming from a myriad of
4、 disparate sources,that is often written in language that can be inaccessible to many organizations.This places an enormous burden on practitioners to sort through and decipher this guidance on their ownrequiring time,resources,and expertise that many organizations,particularly smaller ones,cannot a
5、fford.To address these challenges,the researchers at CSET have attempted to do this intensive work for organizations.In this report,we present a harmonized framework for how an organization should govern,manage,and protect its technologyand how to integrate emerging technologies such as artificial i
6、ntelligence into its existing practices.This work distills more than 7,000 recommendations,collected from 52 different guidance documents,into a condensed set of 258 recommendations.These recommendations are grouped into 5 overarching categories and 34 topic areas,enabling organizations to quickly i