Standards Development Roadmap
The roadmap defines how the Aston Thomas Integrity Commission designs, evaluates, and ratifies integrity standards. It ensures every ATIC standard is lawful, defensible, and aligned with long‑horizon public‑benefit reasoning.
Development Process
ATIC’s standards move through a streamlined, multi‑stage process:
Scoping & Drafting — The Commission identifies emerging risks, conducts legal and domain analysis, and produces an initial draft informed by the PBOC, the Legal Advisory Council, and relevant Advisory Chambers.
Review, Public Input & Pilot Testing — Drafts undergo internal legal and ethical review, followed by structured public comment and optional pilot implementation. Feedback from institutions, practitioners, and pilots is synthesized into a refined version that must meet ATIC’s integrity threshold.
Ratification — The Board of Trustees formally ratifies the standard, establishing it as part of ATIC’s official corpus and eligible for use in certification.
ATIC‑1
ATIC‑1 is the inaugural standard, establishing the baseline requirements for lawful, traceable, and integrity‑aligned artificial intelligence. All future standards build on this foundation.
Future Standards
The Commission maintains a long‑range view of emerging domains, with future standards anticipated in areas such as critical infrastructure integrity, educational AI systems, clinical decision support, and civic‑impact technologies.